Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs,… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
My overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that,… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
There are so many people I love in the United States, and I've had such great adventures in this country and have… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Politics is a part of life and art is about life. It doesn't mean that all the art has to be about… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is.… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be angry about… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had come to… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have devoted their… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I catch myself doing something that I've already done. The more I've done, the more that's likely to happen. Then I just throw… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me. — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
