When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

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.

Per aspera ad astra, Papa, ' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.

Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.

I hate all sidekicks.

Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar... Or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.