All We Do As Songwriters Is Rewrite

I Love Theater. I Go All The Time. It's One Of The Reasons I Moved To New York. But I Understand That I Have Limited Range As An Actor. I Can Only Play People Who Talk Like Me.

The Singer-songwriter Has Always Played Music That Was Stylistically Rooted In The '30s And The Great Depression And The Dust Bowl. But The Fact Of The Matter Is That None Of Us Remember The Depression Firsthand.

At Home, I'm Lucky If I Can Write Three Or Four Hours Before The Phone Starts Ringing And The Kids Want To Go To Soccer.

I'm Not A Racist, But I Do Have To Work At Not Being A Racist, Because Of Where I Grew Up.

Becoming Interested In Poetics Got Me Interested In Theater. Theater Is Supposed To Be Poetry, You Know, Before It's Anything Else. It Just Doesn't Fly If It Isn't Musical.