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

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.