There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

Love is a rainbow curving down from the sky, falling crystals of color, shades of warm that never die.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

The truest protest is beauty.