You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.
It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
Finding clothes in the South was impossible.
I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.
All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.
One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity. "
I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.