"Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another."

“It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.”

“I had to get a second passport in a hurry.”

“I'm sorry, Heather, but everything was not just fine before I got here. You know how I know that? Because you're dead. Okay? You are dead. Dead people don't have lockers, or best friends, or boyfriends. You know why? Because they're dead.-Suze Simon”

“Just for today, SMILE a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just for today, remember, while some may have it better than you do, there are others whom definitely have it worse than you! Just for today, just let go, just for today...”

“Fans have always said that I would make a great Indiana Jones, a great Young Indiana Jones.”

“Power should answer by action, not by speech.”

“Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.”

“It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.”