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Society's Child' Was A Real Hard Record To Start With. That's All You Want Is For You To Put Your First Record Out And Have People Screaming At You In The Streets. But It Taught Me Right Away That What I Was Doing Was Valuable And Important.

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.

My Parents Both Were Doing The Civil Rights Movement, Were Very Involved With The Civil Rights To Congress. And My Friends' Parents Were As Well.

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 Had A Vague Idea Of The Song's Impact In The '60s, But That Was Tempered By The Hate Mail And Threats I Was Receiving. It Was Only About Ten Years Ago, When I Finally Put It Back In My Show Because So Many People Were Asking For It, That I Understood 'society's Child' Real Impact.