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.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.