I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working with each other as Jeff Haynes has done here-we may be surprised to find what deeper unity all human beings have.

However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

All songwriters are links in a chain.