I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.

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.

You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.

The horse does of two things. He does what he thinks he's supposed to do, or he does what he thinks he needs to do to survive.

We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

The artist is always beginning.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.

You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.