I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.

How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.