My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

I’ve never sung anywhere without giving the people listening to me a chance to join in - as a kid, as a lefty, as a man touring the U.S.A. and the world, as an oldster. I guess it’s kind of a religion with me. Participation. That’s what’s going to save the human race.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

There is no such thing as a wrong note ... just as long as you're singing along.