There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.