I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!