Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: October 9, 1948
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way..
And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way t….
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face i….
Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own..
It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would ha….
Talk about celestial bodies..
In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and th….
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new..
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything wa….
Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye..
Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know..
I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S..
I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too..
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or….
People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think ….
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our ….
Say it isn't true That there always has been and always will be war Say it isn't true And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled….
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and….
You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But yo….
Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown..
I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in..