Be wary of great leaders.

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

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.