I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

I was raised on Josh White, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. The music was everywhere. You'd go to a party at somebody's apartment and there would be fifty people there, singing well into the night.

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.