“I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally – with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.”

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

I’m ready to grow young again.

I’m ready to grow young again.

I’m ready to grow young again.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’.

What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread it.

I felt like there was something I needed to do – speaking to kids and sharing my story with them and helping them understand racism has no place in the minds and hearts of children.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents’ professions as other children are of theirs.