I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

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

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes.

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

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'