It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.

I write songs because that's the thing I chose to do. And I can't help writing them, that's a fact. Sometimes I felt as though you worked to justify your existence, but you don't; you work to exist, and vice versa, and that's it, really.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

Only where love and need are one, and the work is play for mortal stakes is the deed ever really done for Heaven and the future's sakes.

A man has got to keep his extrication.The important thing is not to get bogged downIn what he has to do to earn a living.