If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

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

And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

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.

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.