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.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

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

I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.

In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.

I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.