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

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

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

What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.

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.

I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.

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.