I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you.

People would rather believe than know.

I’ve never pondered my own life until I started watching fictional ones fight for theirs.

It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

The caretaker needs to be taken care of, in wages and benefits. Not enough emphasis is put on the importance of these caretakers.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.

People love me everywhere I go.