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How Do You Explain What It Feels Like To Get On The Stage And Make Poetry That You Know Sinks Into The Hearts And Souls Of People Who Are Unable To Express It

There Are All Kinds Of Things That Can Be Done. You Can Change Rhythms, You Can Change Chords, You Can Change Whole Concepts. But It Will Only Work, On A Record Or In A Performance, If You Can Make The People Buy It.

I Do Love To Sing Jacques Brel Songs, Intensely. I Get Terribly Excited, Just By Reading A Couple Of Lines In Any One Of His Songs.

I Believe In Racial Memory Too. I'm Sure I've Got Ancient African Blood In Me That Has Something To Do With What I Am.

I Think If I Were Over There In America, Protest Music Would Be More Important. But I'm Not Going.