I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that.

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.