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You Can Go Out And Find Ways To Make Your Own Record And Get It Out There Now. If You Really Want To, You Can Be Heard. Keep Things Simple. Learn To Go Out And Play Solo. That's A Really Really Good Thing To Learn, If You're A Singer-songwriter. Don't Be Dependent On A Band Because You May Not Always Be Able To Afford One.

I Don't Get In Vote In Whether Or How People Remember Me When I'm Gone. It's Really Dangerous To Sit Around And Worry About It Too Much, For Me. It Gets Me Way Too In Myself To Worry About What People Are Going To Think About Me When I'm Not Around Anymore.

I'm Not A Democrat; I'm Something Well To The Left Of A Democrat, But I'm Just Realistic About The System.

What Songwriting Does Better Than Almost Anything Is Empathy - It's Incredibly Empathetic. The Reason People Sat Around In Bars When They Were Bummed Out And Listened To Country Songs Is Because It Made Them Feel Better In The Long Run.

Songwriters Are Expanding Time Rather Than Compressing Time. My Short Stories Tend To Be Old Fashioned, With A Beginning, Middle And End.