At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.

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

The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.

A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

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.

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