My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own..

The fact is that all the recording science and technology in the world is no substitute for a good song or for real feeling. Music is about feeling a….

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our job is partly ju….

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one..

The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on i….

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love..

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean..

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD..

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them..

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love..

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time..

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are thi….

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her..

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it mov….

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenalin….

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear..

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will..

The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth..

I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not res….

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elep….

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow..