I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you.

Liberate your Mind Black Child, free your self from Mental slavery.

The Truth refreshes the soul. And revive the spirit.

I was born with my voice in my hands.

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

I have children. I have a family to support. But I really could live in a one-room apartment, as long as the television worked. I never needed anything. Just a comfortable chair and I'm fine.

This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.

A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.