We Can Choose, You Know, We Ain't

In 1967 I Entered Harvard As A Freshman, Confident - In The Way That Only 17-year-olds Are - That I Could Change The World. My Major Was African Studies, And My Plan Was To Travel To Tanzania, Where President Julius Nyerere Was Creating A Government Based On Democracy And Socialism.

When You Love A Song So Much You Have To Sing, You Know How You Feel - It Releases Something In You That Resonates As True, Whether It's James Brown Or Joni Mitchell.

You Create The Happiness And The Balance That You Have, And Your Own Power. This Is One Thing That I Know To Be True.

I Can't Make You Love Me, If You Don't.

I Think We Have Responsibilities To Be Active In The Things We Believe In, Regardless Of What Our Job Is. At Least In My Lifetime, There Has Been A Tremendous Combining Of Activism And Music, That Came Up In The Era Of Pete Seeger And The Weavers And Joan Baez And Bob Dylan And Peter Paul & Mary.