“We’ve found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we’re going to err on the side of caution.”

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.

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.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.

I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don’t think that’s an inappropriate characterization, but that’s not a natural thing we’re born with, it’s something that comes about.

Make haste cautiously.