I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

Love is not emotion, it's a way of being.

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."

Violence among boys is so valorized and so encouraged that you have to do things different in violence prevention with boys than with girls.

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key.

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.