"Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. "Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk son…"

"It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar."

"Back around 1971, I was playing in a bar in Chicago one night, and after the show, I was packing up my guitar and stu…"

"[My mother] said, "Arlo, I was out in the middle of China. And they brought out these school kids, and they started s…"

"We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, "You know what? I kno…"

"I'm thinking that somewhere around the world, I remember after this 9/11 event back home, people didn't feel much lik…"

"You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant Walk right in…"

"This song is called "Alice's Restaurant". It's about Alice. And the Restaurant. But Alice's Restaurant is not the nam…"

"Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husb…"

"For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world. He's so alone …"