You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

Now Jesus don't like killin'/No matter what the reason's for.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.