I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God.

I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.