I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

If there's something wrong, speak up!

Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.