The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Of course it's normal for people to say, 'Yeah, this player changed teams because of the money.' That could be the case sometimes, but after a certain level of success? No.

My impression of Wall Street growing up was certainly that it was like the big, bad place where all of the men did the bad things with our money.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.