You've gotta know happy. You've gotta know sad. 'Cause you're gonna know lonely and you're gonna know sad

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

In this world, you've a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world- Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby

For our kind, death is only the beginning.

I’ll take stolen kisses and trysts in the cane fields for as long as I live over a life without you in it.

Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing...

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

Some people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.

Most art is just surface noise.