I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.

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.

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

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

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.

Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.