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

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

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.

I was trying to disturb the war.

Action is the antidote to despair.

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.

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