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Well, I Was Always A Bit Of A Political Junkie. Even As A Kid I Would Read Biographies Of Presidents And Of Civil Rights Leaders Like Martin Luther King And Frederick Douglass And Booker T. Washington.

We Have A Serious Problem With Incarceration In This Country. It's Destroying Families, It's Destroying Communities And We're The Most Incarcerated Country In The World, And When You Look Deeper And Look At The Reasons We Got To This Place, We As A Society Made Some Choices Politically And Legislatively, Culturally To Deal With Poverty, Deal With Mental Illness In A Certain Way And That Way Usually Involves Using Incarceration.

I Think You're Always Policing Yourself By Trying To Do What You Think Would Be "cool" And Accepted By Other People, Until You Start To Figure Out Who You Really Want To Be. Growing Up Is An Ongoing Push-and-pull Of You Being Yourself And You Performing To What Society Expects You To Be.

I Don't Think I'm Craving Any More Fame. But Success And Being Recognized For Making Great Work All Around The World, I Think It's A Great Thing.

Recently, John And I Got To Go To Selma And Perform It On The Same Bridge That Martin Luther King Walked Over. Once A Landmark Of A Divided Nation, The Spirit Of This Bridge Now For All People Regardless Of Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation Or Social Status. This Bridge Was Built On Hope And Welded With Compassion. Common