The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

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.

How can you save the world you have not seen if you can't save the community you have seen?

The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.