Maybe I’m not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I’m not as good. I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it’s one of the things I’m luckiest.
I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
I love theater. I go all the time. It’s one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.
All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It’s part of learning the craft.
I’m a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can’t save m from being a drug addict.
Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
I’m supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.
I’ve been a serial husband, and I’ve done it badly every time.
Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there’s his voice – an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
America’s criminal justice system isn’t known for rehabilitation. I’m not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.
You know I ain’t never prayed before ‘Cause it always seemed to me That prayin’s the same as beggin’ Lord, I don’t take no charity.
I love baseball. I’ll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
Every country that’s ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.
Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.
I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don’t sell millions of records, and I don’t need to.