Bruce Cockburn

If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate. ”

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. ”

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate. ”

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. ”

There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one. ”

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album. ”

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am. ”

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it. ”

Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience. ”

I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been. ”