David Friedman

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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.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

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.

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

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.

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.