Record making is an extraordinary experience.

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.'

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

ATLANTA NIGHTS is sure to please the reader who enjoys this sort of thing.

Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.