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Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

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I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.

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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

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I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle.

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I've written quite a variety of songs, everything from kids songs to political satire, and my dad covered a fairly large range, also.

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But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.

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There's only one God. Call him whatever you want.

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Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

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Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

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Music is a nice friend to have around, whether it is just for yourself or for other people. If you can enjoy it, being professional is almost secondary.

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You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.

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You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

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With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

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I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

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We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

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Building walls isn't going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren't the answer between countries, though.

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Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.

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My dad's songs were really written to make certain people feel as though they had some kind of value. Because they were told from where they work and from the countries they had immigrated from that they did not.

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Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while.

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Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

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I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.

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We would turn everything into songs in those days.

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