When I eat better, I perform better.
Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!
Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
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.
I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.
"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.
Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan.