With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.

I hope the Son is shining on you today.

His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

My wife and daughter have accused me of being too silent at breakfast but I don't want to talk when I don't have much to say.