"I feel that a writer's social conscience should extend to caring about the quality of the culture he is contributing to.
This might sound a bit lofty, but I say it in the belief that every thought held and expressed in words contributes something to the overall culture of a society.
It can contribute positively or negatively in that it can add or detract from that culture. One way or the other, it will do something.
Just how much it contributes in either direction depends on how much it is pushed and how closely that personally expressed thought is related to the generally held ideas of the society.
A song should be allowed to grow within the close environment of its creator, from which it will either emerge or be submerged, depending on the validity of its statement and the value it has as a song."
Don Henderson 1968