It's A Lot Harder To Be Clear-headed,

You Know, A Lot Of People Feel That Sobriety Is About Just Stopping Using Whatever It Was That You Appeared To Be Addicted To, But It Really Has To Do With A Way Of Looking At Your Life And Taking Accountability.

I'm Sure I Would Have Been Considered A More Significant Artist If I Was A Singer-songwriter. It's Just Not The Way I Roll. I Love Being A Curator And A Musicologist. People Write Me Letters And Thank Me For Turning Them On To Fred Mcdowell And Sippie Wallace, And That's Partly My Job This Time Around.

I Was Raised With The Blessing Of Being Involved With Peace And Social Justice, And The Environmental Movement. I Have My Parents To Thank For That.

There Were So Many Great Music And Political Scenes Going On In The Late '60s In Cambridge. The Ratio Of Guys To Girls At Harvard Was Four To One, So All Of Those Things Were Playing In My Mind.

I Would Love To See A Revival Of What We Had Against The War In The '60s - We Could Do These Teach-ins On The Internet, Live And Split Screen, And Have Real In-depth Debate Between People That Are On The "other" Side Of Issues - Nuclear, Gun Control, Whatever. We Could Really Be Having A Much More Democratically Involved And Exciting Debate With People Emailing Their Questions And Having A Virtual Town Meeting.