We Can Live In Fear Or Act

I'm Sure I Would Have Been Considered A More Significant Artist If I Was A Singer-songwriter. It's Just Not The Way I Roll. I Love Being A Curator And A Musicologist. People Write Me Letters And Thank Me For Turning Them On To Fred Mcdowell And Sippie Wallace, And That's Partly My Job This Time Around.

Pat Benatar Might Need A Rock Band, But I Can Just Sit With A Blues Guitar For An Hour And A Half And Do Folk Songs And Great Contemporary Ballads, And Not Many People Can Pull That Off.

Im Happy To Say That At 62, I Think Ive Reached That Point Where Stuff Doesnt Bother Me As Much, And My Gratitude Level Has Gone Way Up, Especially Having Gone Through The Loss That Ive Had, And Losing So Many Of The Great Artists That I Was Close To. They Taught Me How To See It With A Grain Of Salt And A Lot Of Humor And Perspective.

The Connection Between Toxicity And Cancer And Safe Air And Water And Food, All Of That Was Important All Along, As Were Women's And Human Rights Issues, But The Nuke Issue And The Safe Energy Movement Became Really Important To Me In The Mid-'70s.

I Learned By Experience That You Can Change Your Circumstance. It's As Simple As The Serenity Prayer; It's A Very, Very Real Thing.