“I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody …” — John Prine

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

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

I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.

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.