Once You're Halfway Home, You

I Learned The Truth At Seventeen, That Love Was Meant For Beauty Queens, And High School Girls With Clear Skinned Smiles, Who Married Young And Then Retired.

It's Neat To Have Finally Reached A Point Where I Can Accept What I Was And What I Am.

I See Interracial Couples All The Time In Nashville. I'm A Jew In Nashville. I'm A Gay Person In Nashville. It's A Non-issue In Most Of The Time. That's A Huge Leap Forward.

I Write A Lot From Instinct. But As You're Writing Out Of Instinct, Once You Reach A Certain Level As A Songwriter, The Craft Is Always There Talking To You In The Back Of Your Head...that Tells You When It's Time To Go To The Chorus, When It's Time To Rhyme. Real Basic Craft... It's Second Nature.

I Think All Of Us Thought That By The '70s, At The Latest The '80s, All The World's Problems Would Be Solved And Everyone Would Be Getting Along Fine. And Instead We Saw That Martin Luther King Jr. Was Assassinated That Year, Robert F. Kennedy Died. We Saw That It Was Going To Be A Lot More Difficult Than I Think We Had Thought.