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" As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs. "
Me
Hopeful
Person
" As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself. "
Time Goes By
Trust
Myself
" Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last. "
Last
Born
Composition
" Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks. "
Short
Work
Help
" For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times! "
Live
High
London
" I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone. "
Hate
Matter
Like
" I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere. "
Fortune
Got
Fighting
" I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year. "
Goodbye
Short
Luck
" I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted. "
Living
Secret
Writing
" I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me. "
Always
Go
Know
" I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that. "
World
Time
Famous
" I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances. "
People
Comfortable
Going
" I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure. "
Great
Yourself
You
" I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference. "
Trying
Want
World
" In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure. "
Music
Success
Value
" I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent. "
Way
Own
Me
" I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally. "
Move
Something
Think
" It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well. "
Interesting
Crisis
Done
" It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything. "
Anything
Doing
Feels
" I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time. "
Thinking
War
Time
" I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there. "
Song
Doing
Big
" I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me. "
Personal
Sadness
Difficult
" I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. "
Own
My Own
Company
" I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives. "
Song
Spiritual
Talking
" I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. "
Children
University
Hospital
" My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing. "
Growing
Keep
Career
" My first career was as a coach and a teacher. "
Teacher
Career
First
" Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. "
You
Songwriting
Me
" The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. "
Problem
Children
War
" There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe. "
Just
Songs
Me
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