There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know, my fondest dream would be if Obama, when he got out of office, decided he was going to go back and organize on the streets. He'd be the only person I could imagine who could really create a movement similar to what King did, and God knows we need that now.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

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

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.