I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.
In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.
It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.
The times they are a-changing.
One should never be where one does not belong.
Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.
I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe
Don't follow leaders.
Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.
... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.
A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.
The longer you live, the better you get.
The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.
The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.
My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.
..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail
I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)
I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."
"America was founded on the backs of slaves."
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