“Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.”

“Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.”

“At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.”

“The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.”

“Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.”

“Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.”