I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

Fall seven times, Stand up eight

The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.

When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.

There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

I try to only worry about things I have control over.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

I'm like it's - it's like taking out whatever you have in your fridge and putting it in a bowl and eating it.

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.