I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

The revolution will not be televised.

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.