I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

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

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.