After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
“I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.”
“I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.”