When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn’t really part of it.

That’s an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It’s still thrilling.

I’ve always been an avid reader. If I don’t have a book in the car, I’ll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don’t even remember learning to read.

I had a vague idea of the song’s impact in the ’60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood ‘Society’s Child’ real impact.

I started ‘Society’s Child’ on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

When you’re young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

I want to do some fiction writing, I’ve had some pretty good luck with short stories, I’d like to do a couple of larger things.

It’s what I do well – I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That’s probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

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.

It’s neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.