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

If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

The foundation of my beliefs is the same as it was when I was 10. Non-violence.

Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.

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.