Music should never be harmless.

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.'

Do not discern it differently -- pursue it differently.

The King of Glory does not reward His servants according to the dignity of their office, but according to the humility and love with which they have exercised it.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.