And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.

Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.

We're all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils.

Whatever you're feeling is what you're vibrating and what you're vibrating is what you're attracting

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.