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.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So the peasantry had their music, and it was about a hundred years ago given the name "Folk music".

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

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.