If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

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

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

To love means you also trust.

I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

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