Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

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

I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

Did you ever want something really bad and then when you finally got it all you could do was stand there and grin at it?

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.