I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. But if by som… - Pete Seeger

The nice thing about poetry is that you’re always stretching the definitions of words. Lawyers and scientists and scholars of one sort or another try to restrict the definitions, hoping that they can prevent people from fooling each other. But that doesn’t stop people from lying.

Cezanne painted a red barn by painting it ten shades of color: purple to yellow. And he got a red barn. Similarly, a poet will describe things many different ways, circling around it, to get to the truth.

My father also had a nice little simile. He said, “The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. And you can’t lay your hand on it. All you do is circle around and point, and say, ‘It’s in there somewhere.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.