I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

When asked why in a 2010 interview by JD Doyle for Queer Music Heritage Holly Near replied "I don't know why. The show was presented at The San Jose Rep and in Los Angeles at The Mark Taper Forum as well as productions in San Francisco and off Broadway in NYC. And until the one I am with and I part ways then I am just what I am in that relationship and I don't much think about what I will do next.

Holly Near (born June 6 1949 in Ukiah California) is an American singer-songwriter actor teacher and activist for social change.