If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

You can't write a good song about a whorehouse unless you've been in one.

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Take it easy, but take it.