I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.