All my friends are so small town.

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.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

...There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.

I've learned a long time ago, you don't say anything for absolutely certain.

Those that pulled my credential were actually doing me a favor. I was given a pass to leave an event that already had me feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in my career choice.