If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.

If you can't get out of something, get into it.

The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.

Whenever you get something in this world, you lose something too — that's just the way things work.

In your imagination, nothing is impossible

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying

The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.