My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
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.
I don’t want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.
Love is why I came here in the first place.
To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.
Imagine what it might do to the human spirit to know that we have conquered hunger as a world wide societal issue?
Love is a light that shines from heart to heart...
For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, come and stand beside me, we can find a better way.
It amazes me, and I know the wind will surely someday blow it all away It amazes me, and I’m so very grateful that You made the world this way.
Love the earth as you would love yourself.
We don’t teach kids how to feel, we don’t give them the words to go by.
Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.
Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I’m sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don’t think it’s going to get any better.
Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o’er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are...
Horses are creatures who worship the earth as they gallop on feet of ivory. Constrained by the wonder of dying and birth, the horses still run, they are free.
Romance lasts forever, love don’t fade away. They may take away our future, but they can’t stop yesterday.
Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you’ll wait for me. Hold me like you’ll never let me go.
Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it’s been since yesterday.