The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

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."

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.

As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.

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

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.

The search is in the doing.