I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.

Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the small things that we can do to create a sustainable future and a healthy environment.

If as an environmentalist we are against anything... it is against the arrogance of power and the most obcene ways it shows up, which is in greed.

All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

You left me, ripped out my heart, and then came back acting like a robot, and you know what? We made it through. You and I, good or bad, belong together. We make each other whole.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.