Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

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.

There are only two classes of people. "The Clear", powered by their confusion and "The Confused", powered by their clarity

Any death prior to the heat death of the universe is premature if your life is good.

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.

And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him.

We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes.