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

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

As long as we keep searching, the answers come.

I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.