A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

Ain't that America, home of the free? Little pink houses for you and me.

Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared.

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.

The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust a white man.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

History is the memory of States.

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

If you truly dwell within Acceptance, you are wityout two things-Expectations and Disappointments.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.