Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I really feel concerned about young people within our present culture. Our present culture, we have to change. Change is inevitable and I wasn't raised in our present culture but it has great pressure that as a young person I never had. Material pressure, social pressure, visual pressure, how you look, and I just try to appeal to young people to think for themselves, to be their own person, and to ask questions and also be very attentive to our planet and our environment.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.