Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.

RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

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 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.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.