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

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.

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

It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

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

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.