I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?

There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.