New Orleans Is A Unique Environment.

Woody Guthrie Was What Folks Who Don't Believe In Anything Would Call An Anomaly.

I Don't Get In Vote In Whether Or How People Remember Me When I'm Gone. It's Really Dangerous To Sit Around And Worry About It Too Much, For Me. It Gets Me Way Too In Myself To Worry About What People Are Going To Think About Me When I'm Not Around Anymore.

I Have A Low Tolerance For Mediocrity In Music And Life. I'm Into Pain And Joy And The In-between Doesn't Interest Me.

I Don't Separate Writing Songs From Poetry And Short Fiction. In The Area Where I Work In My House, There's A Word Processor And A Guitar.

Back Then, The Business Depended On Bohemians. ... They Needed Kristofferson And Roger Miller ..it Was The Tail End Of Something...the Last Tin Pan Alley. ...and We Were The Night Shift! They Gave Us Keys, Because They Knew The Best Songs Weren't Written In Daylight.... We Got Our Keys Taken Away Several Times...me And Guy Clark.