When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore because of what my wife Margot [Hentoff] had written.

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.

It's okay to be afraid, it means you have something to live for.

You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.

I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.