Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

New Orleans is a unique environment.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.