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

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.

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.

The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it’s very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.

All right,” Spook said. He reached to the ground, scooping up a pile of ash. “Let’s just rub this into your clothing and on your face….” Breeze froze. “I’ll meet you back ath the lair,” he finally said.

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren’t many records stores around to just go and browse.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.

Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

I’m the same person. I don’t put on a face. I’m the same guy every time you see me.

We live in a land like no other – a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.