I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

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.'

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

In deep of suffering, I found my soul.

If what you do doesn’t make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.