I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.

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.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Being alone is blissful when you want to...It's terrible when you are forced to..!

Fact is is always truth but truth is not always fact

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

I love photography. I like to write. I like coaching. I've made jewelry. I'm very creative.

I try to counter what Donald Trump says that might have an effect on somebody.

I'm very deliberate and I love Excel spreadsheets and I love five-year plans and all that. So it felt really fun to play someone so incredibly different from myself.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I'm never not thinking of you

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.