I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.