With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

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.

Dwell on good thoughts.

I'm back? I never went away.

You have to be better than your problems.

I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.

Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.

It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have.