My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

I guess the one thing that people don't know about me is, I had my belly button pierced but not anymore.

TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.

I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.