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."

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

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.

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

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