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.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.

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

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.