The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.

America is two Mack trucks colliding on a superhighway because all the drivers are on amphetamines.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

The truest protest is beauty.

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

It is not always Like this, it is much more worse, Though, today seems endless, Still it Passes .

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

You think I'm in love, that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition