In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

To love means you also trust.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.