Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do anything they want. That we all have the power to create a movement for change. That the best part of ourselves is the part that rises up instinctively from compassion.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

I used to jog every day and call it my 'gratitude run.' I'd make my gratitude list as I ran. I never ran out of things to be grateful for. My knees aren't what they used to be, but I still do my gratitude list every day.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.

I think your life informs your art.