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I'm Happy To Have Been A Positive Influence.

One Of The Things That I'm Glad About, Though, Is That Regular People Can Relate To Me.

I Don't Go Into Any Album With A Concept Or A Deliberate Direction. It's More Letting The Best Music That Really Appeals To Me At The Time, The Best Songs That I Find After Many Months And Years Of Search And Sifting Through My Collection, And Asking Radio People And Journalists. It's Really An Ongoing Search That's As Much Daunting As It Is Somewhat Exciting.

Quakers Are Known For Wanting To Give Back. Ban The Bomb And The Civil Rights Movement And The Native American Struggle For Justice - Those Things Were Very, Very Front-burner In My Childhood, As Were The Ideas Of Working For Peace And If You Have More Than You Need, Then You Share It With People Who Don't.

There Were So Many Great Music And Political Scenes Going On In The Late '60s In Cambridge. The Ratio Of Guys To Girls At Harvard Was Four To One, So All Of Those Things Were Playing In My Mind.