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.

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.

I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

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.

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

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.