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Accessible Local Libraries Are Vital To Communities And To Children.

We Cannot Afford To Be Idle. To Act On A Bad Idea Is Better Than To Not Act At All. Because The Worth Of The Idea Never Becomes Apparent Until You Do It. Sometimes This Idea Can Be The Smallest Thing In The World, A Little Flame That You Hunch Over And Cup With Your Hand, And Pray Will Not Be Extinguished By All The Storm That Howls About It. If You Could Hold Onto That Flame, Great Things Could Construct Around It, That Are Massive And Powerful And World Changing, All Held Up By The Tiniest Of Ideas.

One Thing That I'm Really Interested In Is The Kind Of Esoteric Detail That Surrounds These Great Figures. And Wikipedia Is Full Of That Kind Of Stuff, Whether It's True Or Untrue. It Staggers Me: Why, In The Short Space Assigned To A Person Or An Event, That Kind Of Random Information Is There. To Be Honest, That's Wonderful Fuel For Songwriting.

I Feel Like I've Spent The Last Five Years Of My Life On The Road. It Hasn't Affected My Songs But It's Probably Affected Everything Else About Me. Obviously, The More You Travel, The Wilder The Things That Keep Happening To You, The More Likely It Is You'll Get Complete Strangers Knocking On Your Hotel Room Door.

When I’m Singing “deanna,” For Example, Which I Sing Pretty Much Every Night, It Brings Forward A Kind Of Imagined, Romanticized Lie About This Particular Person, Which I Find Really Comforting And Exciting To Sing About.