Joan Baez

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!