My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

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.

In a nutshell, the difference between Christianity and all other belief systems is who you're putting your trust in: in Christ, or in yourself?

The stars will live for me, if not anything else

In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.