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.

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.