I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

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.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Why only gaze at the stars? Catch one!

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?'

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

You get behind some of the numbers, like the underfunded pensions in the US, and I'm not sure people even understand how wrong their situation is.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.