There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

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

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

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

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

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.