A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
Because as an only child, you have your own little world.
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.
Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.
I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
