If You've Got A Blacklist, I Want

If I Can Entertain People And Get Them To Open Up A Little Bit, Then They're Much More Conducive To Any Ideas I Might Have, Whether They're About Relationships Or Politics. The Most Interesting Songs, I Think, Are The Ones Where The Two Overlap.

The Idea That Musicians Should Be Talking About Politics Is, In Some Ways, Quite A Sixties' Idea. Music No Longer Has A Vanguard Role In Youth Culture.

Even With Politics, Stuff Comes Around Again. Woody Guthrie Would Recognize America Today.

A Nation With Their Freezers Full Are Dancing In Their Seats, While Outside Another Nation Is Sleeping In The Streets.

My Theory Is This; I'm Not A Political Songwriter. I'm An Honest Songwriter.