Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.

Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.

The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

When members of this House use inflammatory language, use offensive language, it does not help the process. It is beneath the dignity of this body and this country.

We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.

No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on.

One of the downsides of money is if there's no money, there are very few real jerks who are attached to your project. And if there is money, you do attract some very difficult, unhelpful people.

I don't read fiction at all.

Heres to alcohol the rose colored glasses of life.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Adoption comes from the heart, but the adoption process comes from the Law. You should follow your heart, but be sure you also follow the law.

The wheels of publishing never slow down.

So I departed and was free from imprisonment.

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

There is unusual power in united prayer. God has planned for His people to join together in prayer, not only for Christian fellowship, spiritual nurture, and growth, but also for accomplishing His divine purposes and reaching His chosen goals.

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

I never wanted to disappoint my family at all.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.

At dinner time he would sit in a corner concentrating and suddenly they would say time to feed the cat as if it were their idea.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.