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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I don't usually read reviews.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

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 think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

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.

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.

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