This digital world is completely fascinating to me.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

I love you, " "I was wrong, " and "I apologize" are powerful words. They can save marriages, deepen friendships, and change lives. Don't be afraid to use them.

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.

We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.

The magic of documentary is that I keep being surprised and amazed by the things I film.

If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.

Be who you are and do that well.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.