Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit.