It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?

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.

After a tragic incident you never remain the same. You pick up the pieces and emerge as a stronger, better version of yourself.

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older.

Faith looks beyond the walls of the obstacle and on to the answer.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

Live with passion!

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.