What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

Love will abide, take things in stride.