The Invitation For Artists To Compete To

Politics Is A Part Of Life And Art Is About Life. It Doesn't Mean That All The Art Has To Be About Politics - In Fact, Heaven Forbid. But Politics Is A Totally Legitimate Area Of Focus For Any Art, Whether It's Painting Or Songwriting Or Anything Else, As Much As Sex Is, As Much As Spirituality Is, As Much As Any Other Behavior Of People Is.

I'm Particularly Attuned To Lyrics, And Very Often A Bad Set Of Lyrics Will Ruin A Song For Me, While My Friends Will Be Just Grooving On The Music. I Don't Mean That It Has To Be About Anything In Particular, But There Has To Be Some Art Applied To It, Simple Or Otherwise.

Beautiful Rocks - Beautiful Grass Beautiful Soil Where They Both Combine Beautiful River - Covering Sky Never Thought Of Possession, But All This Was Mine.

I Did A Lot Of Writing For A Lot Of Different Kinds Of Bands That I Was In And Out Of During Those Five Years And That Left Me With A Little Body Of Songs That I Liked Better When I Played Alone, So I Ended Up Going Out Solo And Very Soon Made My First Album.

There's So Many Ways In Which Canada And America Are Inextricably Connected Politically, Economically, Socially. There's No Stepping Away. But At The Same Time, We Don't Have A Say. Canada Is A Different Country. Sometimes I Think Of It As Finland In The Soviet Era. We're Totally Free, But We're Totally Free To Agree, Basically. If We Disagree Too Heartily Or Over Too Sensitive An Issue, Then We Pay A Price For That.