I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

At the audition, your assignment is to find something new in the song. Something you've never noticed before. A breath carried over, a thought that ties the whole thing together. Then take the risk and do it.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as much freedom of the press as we think we have - although the traditional freedom of speech is strongly rooted in American culture.

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.