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By The Time I Wrote Those First Three Songs For His New Cd ... I Wanted To Push The Poetics As Hard As I Could Push Them, And Not Decide The Songs Were Finished Until I Committed Them To Whatever The Recording Format Was. I Went Through Drafts Right Up Until I Recorded Every Single One Of Them.

Maybe I'm Not As Big A Star As Bruce Springsteen Because I'm Not As Good. I Don't Know. It Doesn't Matter. I Still Have An Audience Of A Certain Size. I Think It's One Of The Things I'm Luckiest.

Townes Van Zandt Is The Best Songwriter In The Whole World, And I'll Stand On Bob Dylan's Coffee Table In My Cowboy Boots And Say That.

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

San Antonio Is Like A Military Town. It's Like Literally - When I Was Growing Up There, There Were Five Air Force Bases, Plus Fort Sam Houston. I Was Always Sort Of Near The Military.