I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.

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.

Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday.

[Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

They say that true love hurts, well this could almost kill me young love murder, that is what this must be I would give it all to not be sleeping alone

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".