Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

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.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought

Encouragement fuels great strength and great achievement.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

There's any number of DJs who have inspired me over the years. I don't actively go out in clubs, so I can't tell you if there's some hot new talent out there who everybody's aware of but I'm not.

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

This hypothesis (Parallel hypothesis) would not destroy itself at all easily.

Osho's books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.

Nurture the spontaneous peaceful life.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.