Self-expression without craft is for toddlers.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.

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.