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

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.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

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

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.