I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

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

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

Not everyone who stares likes us

I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

Don't let the world decide who you are. You decide who you are.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.