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

We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

Action is the antidote to despair.

God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

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