The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.

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.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

You say love is just a four letter word.