I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.

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.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to everyday think what can be done better tomorrow. Stay hungry.

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

Money goes to money heaven, body goes to body hell.

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.