There Will Always Be Those People Who

Going Off The Road Just Leaves Me More Time To Be A Writer.

I See Interracial Couples All The Time In Nashville. I'm A Jew In Nashville. I'm A Gay Person In Nashville. It's A Non-issue In Most Of The Time. That's A Huge Leap Forward.

Dreams Were All They Gave For Free To Ugly Duckling Girls Like Me.

I Think All Of Us Thought That By The '70s, At The Latest The '80s, All The World's Problems Would Be Solved And Everyone Would Be Getting Along Fine. And Instead We Saw That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Assassinated That Year, Robert F. Kennedy Died. We Saw That It Was Going To Be A Lot More Difficult Than I Think We Had Thought.

Of Course, I Have A Different Vested Interest In The Gay Community, Because I Am Gay, And I Would Certainly Enjoy The Tax Advantages That Straight People Have, And The Inheritance Advantages, And Things Like Social Security, But I've Always Been A Civil Rights Advocate Across The Board. That's How I Was Raised.