I’ve never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it’s ever moved into.
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the ’30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It’s me realizing that I don’t really control anything.
I don’t think I’m a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it’s in my fabric.
I’m trying to make records where people don’t feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.
I don’t usually read reviews.
My audience doesn’t agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they’re totally okay with us having a dialogue.
He’s the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
I grew up counterculture. I’m essentially a hippie, and I’m essentially a folkie.
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don’t believe in anything would call an anomaly.
I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I’m killing somebody.
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.
I think the music business is changing. Artists that don’t want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.
You know, I’m not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.
I had everything I need to get me killed.
New Orleans is a unique environment.
I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.