"The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots."

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."

"I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow."

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."

"There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories."