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.
Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
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'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.
Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions.
