To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts.

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

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.