There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

I pride myself in being a deep thinker, and I want you to be one too.

Follow your bliss and let the magic of life happen.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

If God does not give you something you ask for wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.

I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.

invaders always destroy libraries.

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.