“I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody wh...” — David Friedman Quote

“I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.”

“As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.”

“There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.”

“Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.”

“In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.”

“All great leaders choose great advisors, people they really trust for their governance.”