To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.
“Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.”
“With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.”