The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.