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.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.

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

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.