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Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

Dar Williams

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.
DAR WILLIAMS

Believe Opportunity Writing
There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
DAR WILLIAMS

People Play Song
God looks like a guidance counselor, God’s got that smile. God says, ‘How could this be? That’s really odd I guess I’ll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I’m only God.’
DAR WILLIAMS

Looks Records Silly
A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
DAR WILLIAMS

Friend Psychotherapy Society Straightforward
There was one tour where I thought, “If I can’t get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit.” Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I’m sure the audience can tell, too.
DAR WILLIAMS

Dialed Feelings Quitting Watches
We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
DAR WILLIAMS

Done Morning Up Wake
I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
DAR WILLIAMS

Play Sound Thinking
And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
DAR WILLIAMS

Ends Faith Friend Have
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
DAR WILLIAMS

Echo Kindness Time
I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cutting Family People Sensitive
I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
DAR WILLIAMS

Falling Gruesome Height Love
There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
DAR WILLIAMS

Bullshit Feelings Towns
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
DAR WILLIAMS

Leader Parent Religious
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
DAR WILLIAMS

Light Night Revenge
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
DAR WILLIAMS

Albums Play Song
We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
DAR WILLIAMS

Language Much Taken Too

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

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Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

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