I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.

Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies to help form a new America, which would be de-militarized, more humanistic, where the police are…

MR. KUNSTLER: Now, Mr. Ochs, have you ever been associated with what is called the Youth International Party, or, as we will say, the Yippies? THE WITNESS: Yes…

I was over there, entertaining the troops. I won't say which troops.