Nobody wants to make great albums now because nobody wants to buy them and there's no place to sell them.

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.

[P]eople think that the human brain is in the head. Nothing of the sort

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

I'm organised in some ways, but not in others.

I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.

Frank gave Leo a confused smile- like he couldn't decide whether to gloat or to thank Leo for being a doofus- but he cheerfully let Hazel drag him along.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life.