Any Idiot Can Be Complicated. It Takes

But If By Some Freak Of History Communism Had Caught Up With This Country, I Would Have Been One Of The First People Thrown In Jail.

We All Go To Different Churches Or No Churches, We Have Different Favorite Foods, Different Ways Of Making Love, Different Ways Of Doing All Sorts Of Things, But There We're All Singing Together. Gives You Hope.

I Always Knew That Sooner Or Later There Would Come Somebody Like Woody Guthrie Who Could Make A Great Song Every Week. Dylan Certainly Had A Social Agenda, But He Was Such A Good Poet That Most Of His Attempts Were Head And Shoulders Above Things That I And Others Were Trying To Do. ... If I Had An Address, I'd Send Him A Birthday Card Saying, 'keep On Going.'

I Was About 16 Years Old Years When My Father Took Me To A Square Dance Festival In North Carolina. For The First Time In My Life, I Found There Was Music In My Country That You Never Heard On The Radio, And You Didn't Hear On The Juke Boxes, And In Theaters. I Fell In Love With It, Especially The Long-necked Banjos.

I Have Sung For Americans Of Every Political Persuasion, And I Am Proud That I Never Refuse To Sing To An Audience, No Matter What Religion Or Color Of Their Skin, Or Situation In Life.