My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of "Daydream" in a lot of elevators.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

First of all I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the comeback that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers somewhere to be viable, salable and so on.

My father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18, that was an early equivalent of educational television. Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

Swirling around my ears, the wind and I whooping at the sea, picking up speed, breathing it all in. An act of loving life.

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.