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I Mean, I Would Love To Have The Career Joan Baez Is Having In Europe Right Now, But God Knows I Don't Begrudge Her That Career.

I Think One Of The Reasons Musicians Keep Doing What They Do And Writers Keep Doing What They Do, Is That We're Totally Unsuited For Anything Else. And I For One Am Much Too Lazy.

I Think These Last 10 Years Have Seen Just A Huge Shift In The Psyche Of This Country As Regards Gay People. I Think Aids Had A Lot To Do With It. So Many Families Who Really Believed They'd 'never Met One' Were Suddenly Confronted With Their Sons Becoming Ill, And Friends Of Sons. I Think That Brought A Lot Of It Into The Open.

I Write A Lot From Instinct. But As You're Writing Out Of Instinct, Once You Reach A Certain Level As A Songwriter, The Craft Is Always There Talking To You In The Back Of Your Head...that Tells You When It's Time To Go To The Chorus, When It's Time To Rhyme. Real Basic Craft... It's Second Nature.

I Think All Of Us Thought That By The '70s, At The Latest The '80s, All The World's Problems Would Be Solved And Everyone Would Be Getting Along Fine. And Instead We Saw That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Assassinated That Year, Robert F. Kennedy Died. We Saw That It Was Going To Be A Lot More Difficult Than I Think We Had Thought.