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

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

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

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

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.

Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.