I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.