“Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. ‘I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,’ I said that.”

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

The picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true.

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Had a dream, I was King, I woke up, still King.

A friend told me ‘I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

If you ever dreamed of playing for millions around the world, now is your chance. Play inside, play for the world.