I've had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.

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

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.

There's an aspect of human nature in which we want to think we're better than somebody else. They're a different color. They speak a different language. They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them, to try to get some of their land or some of their resources.

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

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

Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.