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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.

Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly.

I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.

It's fun playing small venues.

I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.

It's time to start all over/make a new beginning.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.

I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

I'll toss my coins in the fountain,
Look for clovers in grassy lawns
Search for shooting stars in the night
Cross my fingers and dream on.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

Love is hate
War is Peace
No is Yes
And we're all free.

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way.

I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

Words don't come easily, like forgive me.

I'm a hopeful cynic.