Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. ' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.
I ain't ever satisfied.
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.
Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.