Peace can start with just one heart.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.