“I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, an…” — John Prine

I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.

I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

It's usually drawing on personal experience. I don't think I could dig deep enough trying to get into somebody else's life. Like 'Far From Me' - I wrote it about this waitress that I was dating when I was fifteen or so, and she broke up with me.