You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions of Native Americans. [Native Americans] are recognized the world over as keepers of a vital piece of the Creator's original orders, and yet they are regarded as little more than squatters at home. This book features impressive interviews, beautiful illustrations, and gives a voice to the voiceless.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.