Music to change the world

• 'I should have (6) been a simple classical musician', he said, but he started to write songs and they were inevitably about his feelings and reactions to events that he felt

  affected his life. He acknowledges that he's pleased (7) about / with the success of his songs but he is still a reluctant voice for a generation. Now ( 8) what / all he

  wants to do is to mentor younger artists.
• Music to change the world

  I recently interviewed the folk singer Mike Dawn (0) about his protest songs and the impact his music (1) has..had on young people in recent years.

  He explained to (2) me. that he wrote,

  as he says, from his heart about things which really bothered him. But he had never intended that the songs (3) would reach out to others in the way they have.

  He admitted that if people found them moving and helpful (4) in expressing their own feelings, then that is what any artist would want, (5) but / although he

  had not set himself up as a protester.