All you can write is what you see.

I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

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

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

Love is the only medicine I believe in.

Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.