To everything there is a season.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

Now somebody will ask me, Pete, how can you prove these songs really make a difference? And I have to confess I can't prove a darn thing, except that the people in power must think they do something, because they keep the songs off the air.

All songwriters are links in a chain.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.