Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

If you can't get out of something, get into it.

Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.

Jesus has to become real to us. We need to court him and get to know him better. Go on some dates with the Lord.

Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened.

The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.