I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.