“And that's the case with all of James McMurtry's songs. He never prese...” — Taylor Goldsmith Quote

“And that's the case with all of James McMurtry's songs. He never presents these characters for us to judge, but only to sympathize with. He has a capacity for compassion with every sketch that he makes with a person that he is not.”

“Laurel Canyon and Dawes have become linked in a way that I think is misguided, frankly, to tell a new fan what we sound like. But at one point maybe it wasn't.”

“Books look handsome and it's a real singular experience getting to go to a bookstore. I don't want to not do that.”

“Sports are my passion. They have been since I was a kid. So I think I'll be involved in sports in some capacity no matter what I do.”

“A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.”

“We deliberately filled our rainy-day fund to its statutory capacity over my time leading the Mississippi Senate as lieutenant governor.”