There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.

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.'

Vietnam was a noble cause imperfectly pursued

It looks like you're mocking me as if I am a girl who still believes in Santa Claus." Emily says.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

I always have shoe trouble.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

Makes us appreciate blessing, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus.