Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

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.

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing.

Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

My son's an idiot. He sprained his ankle playing golf. He fell off the ballwasher.

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

I think I was about nine years old when I got my first job.