A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

And to my soul mate, who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.

Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.

Going to upward is hard, facing downward is harder, that's why you have to be well prepared.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

Oh, jeez, please kill that metaphor,...Or kill me. One or the other.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.