It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

The journey through life is important, but what you learn during your journey is more important.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.

If you want to know what you are attracting, look around you!

People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

when God said "let there be light" I turned it the f-k off.

Blushes cannot be counterfeited.