Honest songs aren`t written for money.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Anybody who wants to learn everything is pretty stupid. You learn what you can.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.