I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.
It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.
I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time.
There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.
As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.
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.
Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks.
