All songwriters are links in a chain.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Your eyes hold all the answers to my life's problems.

It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.