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.

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

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.

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

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.