Townes Van Zandt Is The Best Songwriter

My Dad Was In A Wheelchair And On Oxygen For The Last Few Years Of His Life.

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.

We're Americans. I Don't Consider Us To Be Evil, I Just Don't Think We Know Any Better. We're A Really Young Culture. We're Hillbillies, And The Rest Of The World Sees Us That Way. I Travel All Over The World, And Probably The Only Worse Rednecks Than Us Are The Australians. And They're An Even Younger Country.

I've Been On Every Interstate Highway In The Lower Forty-eight States By Now And I Never Get Tired Of The View.

The Idea That Murder Victims' Families Are Best Served By Continuing The Cycle Of Violence Is Something That I Consider To Be Not Only A Lie, But Criminally Negligent. You Lie To Victims' Families When You Tell Them They're Going To Receive Closure If They Participate In The Process And Witness The Execution Of A Human Being.