I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

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

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.

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've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.