I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.

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.

Let us be the wind of love that touches every heart and blows away all of the misery and sadness.

My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.

What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.

I had totally lost my way. I lost focus. I lost myself.

Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.

We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him.

And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.