Dear Mr. President, can I ask you a question, when the bombs fall down will they hurt everyone in my family?

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.

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

He that would pun would pick a pocket.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

We know we should have won that game. But that doesn't mean we look at it as a revenge game. It means we think we should have won; and now, let's correct it.

Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I'm not sure that's true anymore.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.