Sixto Rodriguez

“Music is a living art. You re-create it.”

“I'm a lucky man.”

“Entertainment news doesn't interest me.”

“I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.”

“I enjoy room service.”

“I sing about social issues, not the boy-girl stuff.”

“The earth is going to survive, it's the people that aren't.”

“I'm not getting old, I'm getting dead.”

“It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.”

“I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.”

“I have fun with words.”

“Music is not a spectator sport, you have to be involved - fully involved - or you get left behind.”

“There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.”

“I'm a family person, and you make those choices.”

“I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.”

“I've had such an ordinary life.”

“My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.”

“I'm a worker, but I think that all workers get an idea of what to do to get free. Any kind of bondage, even economic bondage, is slavery.”

“I don't much listen to music as I study it: who's doing what, who wrote it.”

“I've been a candidate for office at least eight times. A couple times for mayor, state representative, city council.”