God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

Nothing is better, nothing is best, take heed of this and get plenty of rest.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

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.

The cards are no good that your are holding unless you're from another world.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.