The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the….

My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Balla….

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what Go….

When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I lost hope and I retreated. I ….

Work ... is redemption..

It was never too late to undo who you had become..

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better an….

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie ….

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit..

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant..

Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her st….

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymor….

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.

I don't do comparisons because I always lose..

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience..

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally..

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong..

Every person's every action has an effect..

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and ….

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly..

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion..