Having A Child At 55... That's Optimism.

My Gift's Primarily Literary. That Being Said, I Ended Up A Musician. By The Time I Made The Bluegrass Record...i'm More Impressed With Myself When I Push The Envelope Musically Than I Am When I Push It Literality.

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.

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

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.

Fundamentalism, As Practiced By The Taliban, Is The Enemy Of Real Thought, And Religion, Too.