I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I was recruited to teach 9-year-olds. I taught for two years.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.