They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

I think politics come out of psychology.

I'm not in any rush. I'm not somebody who, if I write a song, I get it out. That's not something I've ever really quite done.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.