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.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.

There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.