An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

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.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.