RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.

Be wary of great leaders.

I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

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.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.