I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

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.

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

Ready for us to get it on, aint got a love to call steady.. Hope it aint like that for long, I'll be your friend if you let me

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

I was pretty subdued [as a kid ] because I didn't want to get spanked, and I didn't want to go to Hell.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

It's always been good here at Edenlove to keep coming here and entertain the crowd.