I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's….

I guess I've learned more from the Clearwater than anything else. All I did was help to plant a seed, and I didn't know what the hell I was doing..

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that t….

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things..

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think..

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds..

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else..

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary..

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible..

All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap ove….

The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of ….

Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail….

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire..