It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself to an ear, nose and throat guy who does a lot of work with singers, and I was hoping there was a big wart on my vocal cords or something and they could scrape it off and I could have the voice I wanted. But he said, "No, for 71, that's your voice."

The search is in the doing.

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

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.