God knows there's a heaven.

Everybody's the first somebody, y'know.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.