Perspective Is The Cure For Depression.

If You Pour Your Life Into Songs, You Want Them To Be Heard. It's A Desire To Communicate. A Deep Desire To Communicate Inspires Songwriting.

I Love America And I Hate It. I'm Torn Between The Two. I Have Two Conflicting Visions Of America. One Is A Kind Of Dream Landscape And The Other Is A Kind Of Black Comedy.

You See, Africa Makes A Fool Of Our Idea Of Justice. It Makes A Farce Of Our Idea Of Equality. It Mocks Our Pieties. It Doubts Our Concern. It Questions Our Commitment. Because There Is No Way We Can Look At What's Happening In Africa, And If We're Honest, Conclude That It Would Ever Be Allowed To Happen Anywhere Else.

The Idea That There Is One Kind Of African Is Of Course Ridiculous. Sometimes African Entrepreneurs Want To Kill You Because You Are Saying Public Health Is The Priority, Not Roads. Of Course They Are Right To Press For That Issue, But So Are We Right, I Believe, To Argue For Example That Millions Of Children Could And Should Be Vaccinated.

Particularly Conservative Christians, I Was Very Angry That They Were Not Involved More In The Aids Emergency.