I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone else's.~

I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do anything they want. That we all have the power to create a movement for change. That the best part of ourselves is the part that rises up instinctively from compassion.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.