The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

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

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

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

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.

To love means you also trust.