[Spoken] Thanksgiving. Remember junior high school, high school, elementary school, "Everybody bring in your cans for the hungry people?" Remember that? Just imagine if somebody when you were in fifth or sixth grade, if the principal had the gonads to say on Monday, "Children, it was the most single wonderful outpouring of generosity that this...Learn More

[Spoken] If you're ever confused about performing, you should stand in a lobby and watch people come in. These are people that are willing to give up ten bucks apiece, give up their evening, come and watch you do something that hopefully you love to do anyway, and pay you for it. You get thousands of dollars playing for thousands of people when you...Learn More

[Spoken] My grandfather was a painter. He, uh, died at age eighty-eight. He illustrated Robert Frost's first two books of poetry. And he was looking at me and he said, "Harry, there's two kinds of tired. There's good tired and there's bad tired." He said, "Ironically enough, bad tired can be a day that you won. But you won other people's battles,...Learn More

[Spoken] I have, uh, trouble getting my songs on the radio 'cause they're too long. But this is a song that snuck on for, on the charts for about fifteen minutes.  [Verse 1] Hello, honey, it's me What did you think when you heard me back on the radio? What did the kids say when they knew It was their long-lost daddy-o? Remember how we listened to...Learn More

[Spoken: Bill Ayres] I think one of the important points of focus is to be able to have that sense of the personal, and at the same time the larger dimension, the social dimension, the political dimension. And that's one of the things that we've both been trying to work at for the past five or six years. It's a tough thing to integrate.  [Spoken:...Learn More

[Verse 1] My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch and bills to pay He learned to walk while I was away And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, Dad You know I'm gonna be like you" [Chorus] And the cat's in the cradle and the silver...Learn More

[Chorus] All my life's a circle Sunrise and sundown Moon rolls through the nighttime 'Til the daybreak comes around All my life's a circle But I can't tell you why Seasons spinning round again The years keep rolling by (You got it bro') [Verse 1] It seems like I've been here before I can't remember when (Yes I can) And I got this funny...Learn More

[Intro] After all is said and done You're the one song that I need [Chorus] You see, all my life's a circle Sunrise and sundown The moon rolls through the nighttime 'Til the daybreak comes around Well, all my life's a circle But I can't tell you why The seasons spinning round again The years keep rolling by [Verse 1] You know, it seems like I've...Learn More

[Spoken] If you want to get in the nuts and bolts of the real world: a child is born. Aah! The first thing they need is air. We're fouling up our air, but very few people are dying of asphyxiation.  Second thing they need is liquid. Very few people are dying of thirst.  The third thing is food. There's enough food to feed everybody on this...Learn More

[Spoken] But anyway, this is a, this is a song I couldn't have written without, without John. It's uh, it's about a, a singer from, uh, Dayton, Ohio whose name is Mister Tanner. And I'm, I'm sure someday John is gonna be knighted for his method-acting performance. Sir John Wallace, I love it.  [Verse 1] Mister Tanner was a cleaner from a town in...Learn More