You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.