For me or a Bruce Springsteen to sit up in our ivory towers and make comments about racism, well, were not really in it, are we?

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.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

It's nice when the movie is not on your shoulders, too. It's fun to do a smaller part sometimes.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Reegan scowled at Cath. "Are you Zack, or are you Cody?".

I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.