People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.

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.

You aren't alive if you aren't in need.

God’s call upon your life is not an accident

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.