I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.

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.

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

The more a human being feels himself a self tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered.

When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.

If you see a lonely homeless, ask this question: Where the hell the society is? And here is the answer: It is rotten and enjoying somewhere!

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.