I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.