I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles.

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.

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

Russia will have much greater respect for America when I'm leading than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more.

Live Fast, Love Hard, DieYoung (And Leave A Beautiful Memory).

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.