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.

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!

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.

An honest man's pillow is his peace of mind.

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

Heaven is a big place, honey. I don't know every dead person.''They'd probably be in hell anyway.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.

Evil cannot be accommodated. It must be defeated.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

Every goal is a highlight film.