I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.