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

Celtic music is part of the language in Scotland and Ireland, where every kid and grandparent knows those songs, music by the likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Snow is getting entrenched here. They are part of our cultural language. It's part of a living treasure. It doesn't just belong to a museum.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.