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

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

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.

Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

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.