God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

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.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.