I do things my way and I pay a high price.

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.

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

You could bounce rocks off her pride.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

No," I said. "I'm not safe, Belen. Who is going to tear Kerrick's arm off if he hits me again? Come on," I urged. "Stay with us".

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks