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

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with...to sing to you and the daffodils.

My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.

I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

Now I know I understand that it was Sgt. Pepper's Band, that put the sixties into song, where have all the heroes gone?