You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they're much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they're about relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.