I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.