"I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands."

“I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.”

“You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.”

“Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.”

“With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.”

“Every game is an away game. Sometimes its hard to keep up with real life.”

“Only you have the power to change your thoughts. Alter your thoughts and you alter your world.”

“Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.”

“My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect to be doing, and just getting better as musicians and as human beings.”