Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

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

I fought for peace in the fifties.

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

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

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.