I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

I totally adore … The Dark Side of Emilee (Trapped).. One of the most gorgeous Piano chords I have ever created, eternal beauty in CDBABY store 6- 16 -2017.

Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next." "Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees.

Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.

I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]

the past is not only that which happened but also that which could have happened but did not.