[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'We hate you, please die.'

you give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

If you're not overprepared, you're underprepared.

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.