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

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

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.