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

I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.