People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.