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.

People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

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.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.