"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.