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

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

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, "I will do a fundraiser for that guy." And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.

The only word for love is everybody's name.

Slavery doesn't have any positives.