I think I'm more effective as an activist if I stay in music, to be honest. Music, the way it reaches people and transcends divisions, is a really effective and powerful forum.

I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

she is an illusion... she can fake everything... you may feel she don't have emotions but may be she is the most emotional one...

I recommend everyone wakes up in the morning to Bachman Turner Overdrive's 'Taking Care Or Business' - you'll feel better.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Wine is the healthiest and most health-giving of drinks.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?