"Because I was lied to as a child. I've based my whole career on telling the truth."

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Barbara Streisand speaks with Scott Simon about crafting her new album, Walls, as a reaction to the Trump administration.

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Scott Simon: Why was it important to you to do this album?

Barbra Streisand: Because I could express my thoughts and feelings at a time when I was feeling sad and heartbroken about what's happening to our country. And I'm so grateful that I have music in my life that gives me the chance to express my feelings through my work.

I gather the song "Don't Lie to Me" is not about a busted love affair.

No. I started off trying to create that so that more people could relate to it in a way — lovers who go through this all the time. But it's like that joke: A woman walks in and her husband is in bed with another woman. She gasps, and he says, "Well, who are you going to believe: me or your lying eyes?" I guess it's about lies: The lies that are coming out of this administration are very unpleasing, unsettling. Maybe that means so much to me because I was lied to as a child. I've based my whole career on telling the truth...

You said you felt especially strongly about the truth because somebody lied to you when you were a child. What happened?

One summer, I was sent away to a religious camp. I had left a home in Williamsburg, where we lived in an apartment with my mother's parents; I slept in the bed with my mother in another bedroom and my brother had a folding cot that came out at night. When my mother came to pick me up from that camp, she didn't tell me that this man in the car turned out to be my new stepfather — which I was never introduced to or told about — and we were taken to a different apartment, a project in Flatbush. That's the kind of story. I just think that the truth is so powerful — truth between people, truth in government. Tell us the truth.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Me too. Hence my DU name.

I couldn't abide with lying to me. I felt violated and like a subordinate being as a child. And I let them (mostly my parents) know I caught them in a lie.


Now as an adult, I will tell the truth, albeit in different ways to make it comprehensible and palatable without it being cruel.

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2. I identify completely with your last sentence.

Sometimes I still struggle with wording, though.