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.

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."

Take it easy, but take it.

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.