Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits. ' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.
I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
I get a singular comment that's very revealing: "I didn't know what to expect. " Every time I hear that I think it's really just code for, "I wasn't sure I'd be comfortable with you in this role," which I understand coming from Oscar Bluth and Hank Kingsley and whatever. But I think there's a degree of, "Oh, okay, this is how it is. " Then almost always people tell me that they love it and then people start talking to me about their families, whether it's transgender issues or not.