The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can..

Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus….

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't..

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong..

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore..

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won..

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV..

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other….

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there..

Now Jesus don't like killin'/No matter what the reason's for..

Some of the songs come so fully, it's like they are pre-packaged. There have been a couple that came in the middle of the night. And I thought, jeez,….

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in. The beginning makes no sense whatsoever. It just, lik….

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to m….

I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than….

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has par….

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other….

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd..

MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' ….

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style..

I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer. I don't like it. There's no noise on the comput….

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say.