We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

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

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

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.

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.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.