I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

Today—be the white clouds full of dreams and hopes in someone’s sky.

You want me at your mercy, Princess. Question is, why?”“No, ” she whispered. “Question is, do I?

...this is your life. It's not your mom's. You have to do what makes you happy too

Settle for nothing less than the object of your desire.

I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax.

The head of the AFL-CIO endorsed John Kerry, saying, 'The time has come to come behind one man, one leader, one candidate.' Then he said, 'And until we find that man, we will endorse John Kerry.'

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it.

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

I've spent my life following my passion.