I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Malvina was one of the great people of the 20th century,

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

In a few lines of poetry he captured one of the great contradictions of the world: the heroism of people doing something, even knowing it was a crazy something. And he showed how the establishment has used music for thousands of years to support its way of thinking.