Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it de….

Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time In the cry of a tiny babe..

I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it. You don't have to buy it. ….

I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random vo….

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing..

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light..

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that ti….

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile..

There is no gap between art and politics..

Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which was very stro….

I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's been. The process of applying mu….

Once you tie anger and ego together then you're a monster, at least a latent one. So you have to be able to separate those things before you are goin….

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me..

My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till they dropped, as I fully expect ….

Music itself isn't enough to completely wear down my stash of anger. And I don't have all that much more to be angry about than anyone else. It's not….

There's roads, and there's roads, And they call. Can't you hear it? Roads of the earth And roads of the spirit The best roads of all Are the o….

Abu Ghraib, as bad as it was, can't be compared to what Saddam was doing to people..

It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have ….

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing..

I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl..

Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can't tr….