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The Iraq War Has Thrown Such A Heavy Shadow On Afghanistan That You Can't Hardly Get Any News About That Now. I Went To Afghanistan This Year And Spent More Time There Than I Did In Iraq ... Just 'cause They Were Forgotten About, And I Wanted Them To Know That I Appreciated It.

If I Hear A Conversation And Somebody Says Something Intriguing, My First Thought Is, Is That A Song? I Write All Year Long, And At The End Of The Year I Pull These Forty Or Fifty Things Out And Say Which Of These Things Do I Want To Record.

Writing Is Not Work. In Fact, Theres Nothing Better. Writing Is Something That If The Music Business Went Completely Away Tomorrow - Radio Stations Quit Existing And Music Quit Being Popular And It Was Old Hat - I Would Still Write Songs.

Writing Songs And Looking For Ideas Is Like Blinking My Eyes. It's An Involuntary Muscle. I Do It Without Thought.

I've Been A Lifetime Democrat, And I'm Re-registering This Year As An Independent. It's Strictly [because] My Party, That I've Been Affiliated With All These Years, Doesn't Stand For Anything That I Stand For Anymore. They've Lost Any Sensibility That They Had, And They've Allowed All The Kooks In, So I'm Going Independent.