I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

I was kind of pathetic. That's what got me playing out in the street. I ran out of money and needed more gin for the night.

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.

I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.

Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.

I'm just a guy that sings songs because that's what he likes to do, I guess.

I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

I was born or raised in the church, so I guess the first songs I would have played would have been church songs.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.

The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

I write about families. That is who we are.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

I was basically adventurous, I think I wanted to try everything.

Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.