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

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

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.

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.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

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.

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