SE: Yeah, the performances themselves. But I didn't make any rules about what I could do to them after that ... I was willing to overdub almost any of them. I put strings on a few of them. But I recorded all of the sessions, just guitar and vocal versions, and then I ... went to Shreveport to shoot a movie. And I was riding around playing it for the director . . . and he goes, "You're not going to do anything to that, are you?" . . . That comment, plus Steve Christiansen, who actually recorded most of this stuff, said that he would take it home at night . . . He had a connection to [Townes Van Zandt] and he's a really good engineer.

I voted for Barack Obama for one reason: because he promised he would bring these troops home from Iraq. And he hasn't done that yet. Now, I'm patient. But I'd hate to have to write the letters ... for any of these kids that are killed between now and the time he finally gets them out of there. I believe that's what his intention is. I believe he was handed a lot of shit to deal with. And you know what? He's a lot more progressive than I thought he was, all things considered.

SE: It's hard for anybody to be married. It's hard enough for people to live together and try to occupy the same space. It's obviously something human beings want to do, and it's sort of how we were designed to live. But it's tough.

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