I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

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.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.