American society has gone completely into denial.

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.