Sympathetic Characters Usually Have A Voice. They

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.

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 Really Believe That If I Make Records That Are Indispensable To My Audience, They'll Go Out And Spend Money To Buy Them, Even If They've Already Downloaded Them. If They Can Afford It. If They Can't, I'd Rather They Be Able To Download It Than Not Get It At All.

By The Time I Wrote Those First Three Songs For His New Cd ... I Wanted To Push The Poetics As Hard As I Could Push Them, And Not Decide The Songs Were Finished Until I Committed Them To Whatever The Recording Format Was. I Went Through Drafts Right Up Until I Recorded Every Single One Of Them.

I Was Born On This Mountain, This Mountains My Home, She Holds Me And Keeps Me From Worry And Woe.