I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.
The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.
As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
