It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

I'm not going out there and doing the same material every night. I have this amazing audience of fans who have been listening to me, some of them since 1975.

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.