Hi Larry. Me again. Sorry to prolong your involvement in this, but I need help understanding a couple of things. I'm having difficulty reconciling this thing you said...

Vertually all the songs I write, I write from some level of personal involement

...with this quote that you indicated your support of in another thread...

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Do you speak out for people like the sex slaves and other categories of people who are being victimized, and with whom you don't have some level of personal involvement, in other ways than by writing songs? Or do you feel that it's not appropriate for you to speak out for any groups of people with whom you don't have any level of personal involvement?

And I'm also having difficulty understanding this...

I write Human Rights songs, or Historical Ballads, not Political music

I don't understand how a song can be a human rights song but not a political song. I'm having difficulty seeing how human rights can be separated from politics.

I hope you will read these questions in the manner in which I'm sending them, with the desire to shine a light on some things that aren't very clear to me.

Thanks.