At Home, I'm Lucky If I Can

Or You Can Be Like The Soviet Union, Start Out With Ideals, And End Up Ceasing To Exist.

People Hate Good Books To Be Over. I Wish I Could Write A 700-page Book.

Part Of It Is, I Think, Just To Let People Know You've Got A Record Out There And That You're Still Alive Requires More Work Than It Used To, Because The Traditional Radio, Bug Chains Of Record Stores, All Of That, That Doesn't Exist Anymore.

We're Americans. I Don't Consider Us To Be Evil, I Just Don't Think We Know Any Better. We're A Really Young Culture. We're Hillbillies, And The Rest Of The World Sees Us That Way. I Travel All Over The World, And Probably The Only Worse Rednecks Than Us Are The Australians. And They're An Even Younger Country.

The Drama Teacher That I Had In High School, Back In Texas, Was The Only Teacher Who Didn't Kick Me Out Of His Class. He Turned Me On To 'the Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I Had Picked Up Dylan With 'bringing It All Back Home,' And He Turned Me On To The First Couple Of Albums, Which I Hadn't Heard.