I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

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.

Stop thinking that racism is fun until a racist person get under your skin, that's when you'll know racism is not fun.

A strength is a lot like oxygen. We don't really pay much attention to it - unless it's missing.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.