"Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'"

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."

"Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends."

"Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'"

"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a timeless truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music."