I Can't Make You Love

We Can Choose, You Know, We Ain't No Amoeba.

Leading A Band And Producing Yourself And Picking Cool Tunes And Putting A Show Together Takes A Lot Of Thought, And A Certain Amount Of Courage. In My Early Twenties, If I Wasn't Getting Good Enough At It, Then People Would Not Come And See Me. Anybody Who Has Lasted This Long - I Hope We Get Better With Age.

Whatever Role We Were In Our Family Of Birth, We Take On This Persona And In Your 20s And 30s In Particular, You End Up Thinking That's You And That Isn't Necessarily You.

In 1967 I Entered Harvard As A Freshman, Confident - In The Way That Only 17-year-olds Are - That I Could Change The World. My Major Was African Studies, And My Plan Was To Travel To Tanzania, Where President Julius Nyerere Was Creating A Government Based On Democracy And Socialism.

I'm The Same On Stage As I Am Off Stage. A Lot Of People Who I Admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne - Are Not That Different Either. You Hope That If You Met Them That They'd Be As Nice And Well-rounded As They Appear.