Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

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.

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

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.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

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.