Plagiarism Is Basic To All

But If By Some Freak Of History Communism Had Caught Up With This Country, I Would Have Been One Of The First People Thrown In Jail.

I Am Saying Voluntarily That I Have Sung For Almost Every Religious Group In The Country, From Jewish And Catholic, And Presbyterian And Holy Rollers And Revival Churches.

Songs Are Funny Things. They Can Slip Across Borders. Proliferate In Prisons. Penetrate Hard Shells. I Always Believed That The Right Song At The Right Moment Could Change History.

There Is Something About Participating; It Is Almost My Religion. If The World Is Still Here In 100 Years, People Will Know The Importance Of Participating, Not Just Being Spectators. Millions Of Small Groups Around The World, That Don't Necessarily All Agree With One Another, Are Made Up Of People Who Are Not Just Sitting Back Waiting For Someone To Do Things For Them. No One Can Prove Anything, But Of Course If I Didn't Believe It Had Some Kind Of Power, I Wouldn't Be Trying To Do It.

I Never Intended To Make A Living From Music. That's The Funny Thing. I Wanted To Be A Journalist.