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.

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.