Joan Baez

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.