It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

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

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

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

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.