I Am So Sick Of Reading About

Think About All Of The Families Where The Father Is A Doctor And The Son Is A Doctor Or Generations Of Coal Miners. Why Did They Go Into That Line Of Work? Because That's What They Were Taught. Or Was It In Their Genes? It's Not An Either/or Question. It's Both. I Was Inclined In That Way. I Was Sensitive To Music And Poetry, And It Was Around Me Growing Up.

My Dad [johnny Cash] Went To The [richard] Nixon White House And Refused To Sing "welfare Cadillac" (instead Performing The Anti-war Songs "the Ballad Of Ira Hayes" And "man In Black"). He Protested The Vietnam War, But He Went To Perform For The Troops With Bombs Dropping All Around Him. He Had That Kind Of Genius: A True Artist's Capacity For Holding Two Opposing Thoughts At Once While Being Large Enough To Encompass All Realities.

No, My Step-daughter Just Opened A Theatre School For Children, I Have Another Daughter Who Works In The Record Industry And Another Who Is Going Back To Collage And I Have Two Little Ones At Home.

The Thing That Scares Me Most Is The Shift From Serving The People To Exercising Power And With It, This Attendant Narcissism. Sarah Palin Is A Great Example Of Someone That Just Stirs The Pot For The Sake Of The Attention.

I Was A Songwriter; That Was The Torch I Carried. This Is An Honorable Profession. This Is What I Do.