“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 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.

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.

I’m proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story – it’s casting, editing, cinematography.

The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.

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.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully its not a freight train!

Spring blooms, even in places where life once ended.

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it’s the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

Peace begins When expectation ends.

Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.