In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

Don’t reject something just because it seems strange. It’s comfort that will kill you in the end.

Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice.

Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait

Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.