It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

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

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

The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.

To love means you also trust.