The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

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

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

It's been my belief that learning how to do something in your hometown is the most important thing.

I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.