When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

This is like coming back to earth from another world. It is like a dream too.

How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.

Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.

As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.