I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy. My cathedral is forests, or the prairies, or the beach.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.