To everything there is a season.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.