Many Americans knew their lives and their souls were being struggled for, and they fought for it. And I felt I should carry on.

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

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

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