I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.

A person who buys excuses will soon attempt to sell them to others.

The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

After three albums, you should shoot your producer

In comradeship is danger countered best.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

We never get to see that our kid is capable of solving problems on her own. We never start to build up the faith that they can actually do it.