 Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album. |
| I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles. |
| When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. |
| I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred. |
| I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. |
| If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to. |
| A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business. |
| Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy? |
| My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material. |
| It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news. |
| We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing. |
| I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty. |
| People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four. |
| I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had. |
| Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. |
| When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions. |
| When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally. |
| Natalie from the Dixie Chicks could have said what she said before 9-11 and no one would have cared. |
| I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. |
| A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song. |
