If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.
Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.
Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.
Trayvon Martin did not need to die.
There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.
Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.
I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.
Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
My motto is, 'Never quit.'
Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.
Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred.
With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.
One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.
Texas is as odd as it is vast.
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
