I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and the private sector, self-interest has displaced the ideal of community that made this country great. The old world view of "us, we, our" has been replaced by "I, me, mine." The reasons for this are manifold and complex, but at the end of the day, we need to remember that, if one of us is suffering needlessly, all of us are diminished.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.