"So we'd get in a horse and buggy and we would go and park under a tree and we'd read poetry to each other. " And my grandfather told me all the stories. I mean, their way of communicating. . . They didn't have telephones, either, so they communicated with the written word. And I really. . . That's how old [Bill] Clinton has become to me [speaking of how he met Hillary Clinton].
I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.