My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.