from the Humans album

"A lot of the songs on Humans came out of my realization that I needed other people.....I've always been a loner and kept a distance between myself and even those I've regarded as friends. But all of a sudden when I was getting kicked around and battered, all these people were right there - they came through in a way I never would have expected."

-- from "Bruce Cockburn's Quiet Optimism", High Fidelity, 1981, by Stephen Holden.