I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Every person has only so much attention to give and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics not science is behind the FDA's actions.

Skip the religion and politics head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.