When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

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.

The truth is so dear to me that if Orholam stood on one side and truth on the other, I would turn my back on my creator himself.

My self-esteem is not tied to the approval of others.

Lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly places.

You can't get ahead while getting even.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.