the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

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.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

They say your attitude determines your latitude.

A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

If you act like a victim, you are likely to be treated as one.

Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.