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The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

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Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

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When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.

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Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

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I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

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At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

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I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

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I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 7th, 1951

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