I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

John Hammond persuaded Columbia to put it out as a single, and it was the only one I ever had that sold more than 20,000.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.