My voice has gotten better from smoking.

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.

Let us doom and gloom not creep into our day and lust for life not wither away. With the future as brother-in-arms, steps in the unknown should not frighten. ("Steps in the unknown" )

Everybody comes from somewhere.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,'

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.