The sense of traveling this continent, also other continents. The friendship.I would say a non-competitive friendship. That is so amazing to me.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.