It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed; but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home

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.

It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.