"I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.“

-Joni Mitchell

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"We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers."

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"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."

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"I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect."

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"You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life."

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