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.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

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