I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

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

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

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.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

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