I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

Talk about celestial bodies.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

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.