The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great….

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view..

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians..

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such..

While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they sym….

I love mixing up my genres..

There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in the blanks - and then ….

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that….

Self-expression without craft is for toddlers..

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis..

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children..

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try an….

I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind mys….

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq..

Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? ….

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War..

I'm a songwriter. My voice just serves what I'm writing about. So to let all that go, I mean, bring the sensibilities of it actually to the song choi….

On the plane, an eight-year-old with an excess of testosterone keeps running across my feet. Finally I grab him by his T-shirt and say, very sweetly,….

Work ... is redemption..

"Country" has become a marketing term. I see myself as a songwriter..

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming..