There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.
I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. . . . Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. . . . Music should never be harmless. . . . I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.
A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you. ' The Christian answered, 'The power is all on my side. I can love you while you torture me to death. '
I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.