We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.

When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.