My dread is for my show to be a nostalgia act. So the key to it is how do we keep it fresh?

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

I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.

The search is in the doing.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

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

There's very little I can sing now. When I asked my first voice teacher, who was the best one, "When will I know when to stop singing?" he said, "Your voice will tell you." And it is very, very difficult to sing now.