Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding.

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

I don't write as many songs as I used to. But, I find myself writing for social media more - times have changed. And I love photography, so a lot of my creative energy gets caught up that way.

You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.

Being famous is not the same as being important. A lot of important people aren't famous, and a lot of famous people aren't important.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.