Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine, and having such good information at our fingertips. I can look up anything on my computer. And I can call any friend at the drop of a hat on my cell phone. And I can have beautiful clothing and great food in a world where people are being tortured. I have some responsibility for that.

Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

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

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.