My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle.

I always outworked everybody. Work never bothered me as it bothers some people.

With a teacher it is necessary to be sensitive to their directions; most of the time they won't say much. You have to be still and silent to understand.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?