Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.