When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it's going that day.

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

Like it or not, I'm the new f***ing Aquaman buddy.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.