I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.