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

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

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

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

"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.