If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who wants to be a songwriter should listen to as much folk music as they can, study the form and structure of stuff that has been around for 100 years.

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.