I've always been very involved with environmental issues. I was fortunate to be one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero some years back, and Bruce Johnson and I served on the board of the Surfrider Foundation here at home. Locally and globally, we need to be doing everything we can to help Mother Earth.

You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.