It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.

What is once well done is done forever.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

I'm not surprised that they would attempt to create a false veneer of legitimacy by promoting their cause through the mouths of Jews and Israelis. It doesn't matter who is speaking; what matters is the content of the message, and that message of an analogy between South African apartheid and Zionism is false and extreme.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.