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.

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.

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

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.