You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.