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

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

Be wary of great leaders.

We will never know everything. But I think if we can learn within the next few decades to face the danger we all are in, I believe there will be tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, of human beings working wherever they are to do something good.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

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.