Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long..

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself bette….

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain..

I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching insid….

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage..

You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?.

I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain..

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone..

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields..

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't ….

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do….

Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are fa….

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Afr….

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time a….

I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight..

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past..

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done..

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender..

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my o….

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy..