I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

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.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

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