I Hope I'm An Integrous

My Love Was Bob Dylan, But As I Got Older I Realized A Good Ballad Was A Good Ballad.

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.

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.

Ugly Ducklings Don't Turn Into Swans And Glide Off Down The Lake. Whether Your Sunglasses Are On Or Off, You Only See The World You Make.

I'm Honored When Young People Say They've Gone To School On Slide Guitar With My Records. But People Get Their Influence From My Live Shows And Records And Youtube, Not Me Personally. I Walk Around With A Hat On. People Don't Know It's Me.