Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

I do know what my songs are about.

The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.