Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

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.

So when I feel most lost I choose to remember those things that help me survive. I choose love.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Love grows by service.

The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents.

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.