“The generation I grew up in was the beginning of “stand up for yourself,” whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn’t have put up with guys treating us less than equal.”

If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I’m glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?

I didn’t have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?

You don’t have to look a certain way to have a hit record.

We just magically thought this was all going to happen: we were going to have clean food, and organic this, and conscious that, and it just didn’t happen.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

The connection between toxicity and cancer and safe air and water and food, all of that was important all along, as were women’s and human rights issues, but the nuke issue and the safe energy movement became really important to me in the mid-’70s.

I’ve been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

I can’t make you love me if you don’t, You can’t make your heart feel something it won’t.

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world.

If we are truly each other’s keepers, let’s support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

I was already doing really well in terms of my goals, to keep my fans coming back.

There’s a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me – maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

We both want a unified Syria that is stable in which all Syrians enjoy equal rights.

It’s pretty easy to see that… wealth doesn’t really equal happiness.

Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.