It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

I've always been a very prolific writer.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told.

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

Time & distance does wonders for healing & rejuvenating your soul.

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.