In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.

When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

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

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

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.