War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.

While visiting places in the South with my heart really open, I realized how important people in certain geographical spots were to me, what they symbolize, how I'm still connected to them and how much they are a part of my ancestry, both musical and real.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.