POV: "Music That Means Something"

1 Camel
2 Judee Sill
3 Pentangle
4 Caravan
5 Bert Jansch
6 John Renbourn
7 Alan Stivell
8 Stone The Crows
9 Bo Hansson
10 Shawn Colvin
11 Michael Chapman
12 White Lion
13 Davy Graham
14 Paul Mounsey
15 Stomu Yamashta
16 Moondog
17 Matthews Southern Comfort
18 Babe Ruth
19 Wallflowers
20 Nic Jones

It was first. I started writing poetry long before I started writing music. It's my love. I really love poetry. I love reading poetry. Because I was raised without electricity and stuff, listening to music wasn't a big part of my diet, reading was a huge part of my diet. So I learned a lot about human nature, human behaviour, human relationships by reading poetry. So I was really tickled to put out a book of poetry. It was really frightening but I was really excited to do it. My fear is I worship brilliant poets and I'm nowhere near that. I think that's any artist's fear. I have the same fear as a musician - there's such great music out there you don't want to add to the pile. But I am glad. It was also because I've sold ten million records here in the US I'm up for a lot of criticism for switching mediums and so I knew the press would jump on it a lot harder and a lot more critically. So I was going to make a book that was really fiercely critic-proof and had just the perfect poetry in it and it would have been a lot thinner, but I decided I wanted kids to understand the evolution, the development, a young woman developing, a spirit developing, emotions developing. So I put in a broader selection and I'm glad because the kids really do seem to be getting that.