A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.