The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then I went directly to rhythm and blues, which had beautiful voices but not much melody in particular and pretty much the same chord pattern. I loved it, I was entrenched in it, but then folk music came in the middle of that for me, and made its own path. And it was part of the rebellion against bubblegum music, or music that is pretty but doesn't say anything.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

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

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

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.