The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women's and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-'70s.

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there's been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.

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