Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is. We finance the obnoxious elites in those countries and they exploit their people so we don't have to say that we're doing the exploiting but nevertheless we are benefiting from it.
Bruce CockburnMy overall responsibility is to be truthful. If people pay money to come and see me, looking for something other than that, then they've made a mistake.
Bruce CockburnOne day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
Bruce CockburnI've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to like it. You don't have to listen to it at all. I'm not trying to convince people of things, other than the fact that I'm trying to make as vivid as I can my own feelings and experiences.
Bruce Cockburn