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

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.

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.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us.

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

I'd like to apologize in advance for anything I may say or do that could be construed as offensive as I slowly go nuts!

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.