God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

The truest protest is beauty.

Everything in life is a metaphor for everything in life." Bonnie Marlewski-Probert

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

I've been giving interviews for the last 25 or 30 years, more often than not answering the same questions over and over again, ad nauseum

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.

Adventure is the essence of life.

I love only one girl, one in every town.

Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all.

Real happiness lies in the completion of work using your own brains and skills.