Sunshine on the water looks so lovely

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?