I wrote music as soon as I knew notation..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Do for yourself, for no one else will..

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation..

You don't get nothing and like it..

When you start somewhere, you've started..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason..

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work..

Politics is cyclical..

The public makes a hit..

It's not how much you make, it's how much you save..

All you do is get on and start pedaling . . ..

... for some of us life always comes C.O.D..

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion ….

One truly understands only what one can create..

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New.

The great appear great to us..

What gets celebrated gets replicated..

America was built on her citizens..