The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

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.

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

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.