I Am So Disconnected From The World

To Sing Is To Love And Affirm, To Fly And To Soar, To Coast Into The Hearts Of The People Who Listen To Tell Them That Life Is To Live, That Love Is There, That Nothing Is A Promise, But That Beauty Exists, And Must Be Hunted For And Found.

Noise Is An Imposition On Sanity, And We Live In Very Noisy Times.

I Was Addicted To Rhythm 'n' Blues Pretty Much Directly Into Folk Music. I Had My Little 45s Of Mostly Black Artists. That Was As Close As I Got. I've Never Listened To Heavy Rock Or Stuff That Jangles My Nerves, Because I'm Already Jangled.

People Say I'm Such A Pessimist, But I Always Was. It Never Stopped Me From Doing What I Had To Do. I Would Say I'm A Realist.

Back Then I Was Still Listening To Rhythm And Blues, And My Aunt Took Me To See A Pete Seeger Concert. And It Gelled. He Made All The Sense In The World To Me. I Got Addicted To His Albums, And Then Belafonte And Odetta - They Were The People Who Seemed To Fuse Things That Were Important To Me Into Music. I Think Pete The Most Because He Did What He Did To The Point Where He Took Those Enormous Risks And Then Paid For Them.