Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

When you sing, you pray twice.

Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.