Bruce Cockburn Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

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

“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 that time.”

“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.”

“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.'”

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

“The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.”

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

“A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.”