Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

We want your skull! Make no bones about it!

Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.

We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.

Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present...

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

Some people don't like staying in an atmosphere that was so hostile.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.