To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
Heck, I’m no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
The nuclear arms race is like two people sitting in a pool of gasoline spending all their time making matches.
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.
I’ve had a deep love affair with skiing for many years.
Peace is a conscious choice.
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.
I know I’m incapable of orchestrating an entire film.
Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
It’s a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.
The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.
I am the hawk and there’s blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.
I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.
On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there’s an answer, it’s just that it is that way.
Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.
Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.
Whatever meaning ‘Annie’s Song’ had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.
I think more about the family now. That’s an interesting progression for me.