There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Each year I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

When I enrolled in college at age 19 I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman respectable - me it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like 'Oh finally I'm proud of you!'

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy productive well-prepared young people.

Inclusive good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

You can't have a university without having free speech even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.