If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.

I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.