Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

Strength - faith - hope - love.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

I realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was in front of thousands of other people, which most people wouldn't consider to be a safe place.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.