I learned a lot about what it was like to have to use different hotels and not use the bathrooms, which made me more determined to be an activist.

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.

You will never understand the real definition of insanity until the day you are told it is unreasonable for you to feel hurt by the very people that hurt you.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

A man who is fed up with being successful all the time must definitely try failure to feel better!

sleep is such a luxury, which i cant afford.

You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.