We pray every day for them.

They're reaching people we can't. We have no problem with that. They're only getting a good message out.

This is a very sad day for us. This hunt is not about public safety. This is a trophy hunt, plain and simple. But the bears don't belong to just the hunters. They belong to all of us.

Today, for us, is a very sad day. They're here to kill them, we're here to help them.

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.