In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

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 know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.

That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

what a sad pair we are, " she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Nothing is black or white.

You can't photograph if you're not in love.