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

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 full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

"Diamonds & Rust" started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.