Only by first acknowledging that we are living beings together here on this planet before labeling ourselves as anything else can we hope for peace on Earth.

My songs, they have just the one chord, there's none of that fancy stuff you hear now, with lots of chords in one song. If I find another chord I leave it for another song.

See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for live improvisation.

I'm an introverted sort of writer.

I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it.

No matter how difficult things may seem, all things are possible.

By being in harmony with your environment you are able to control more precisely what happens.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

I've gone through hell and back.

Evil then results from imperfection.

Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!