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.

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.'

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.

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

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

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?