You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

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.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

I'm an appalling cook. I can just about create a glass of orange juice and a ham-and-cheese sandwich.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.

I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

The players need to remember to run with their bodies above their legs.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.