Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

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.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.