"The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music."

"We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy."

"I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it."

"In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss."

"Wisdom principle 77 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 40."

"Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures."

"And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel."

"It is a quiet truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions — an essential principle for the reflective life."