What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Sometimes, good things that go wrong are like seeds. They have to be buried for something bigger and better to sprout out of them.

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.