Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.