Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

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

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

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.