I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

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.

Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.

Many Christians would prefer to hear “What a great guy” from the crowd rather than “Well done, good and faithful servant” from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Patience is the secret to good food.

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.