Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

Life without a defined purpose is similar to a boat without a crew in the middle of the ocean.

The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

There are a million things I can think of that I would I want to do. Reporting like you, would be one. A talk show host maybe, also. I want to do a lot.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'