When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

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.

Is idleness indeed so black a crime?What are the Busy doing, half their time?

Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire.

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

I get a lot of satisfaction from crafting and shaping mixes. I love finding the right balance, the right dynamic. It's an emotional interaction with the music.

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.