Quotes from Bruce Cockburn

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time In the cry of a tiny babe.

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd.

'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.

There are so many people I love in the United States, and I've had such great adventures in this country and have been so well received by people here.

Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.