Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.
It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
It's not cool to be an alcoholic.
I don't go out and pick fights.
I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.
It's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism. Without feminism, you wouldn't be allowed to have a debate on a woman's place in society. You'd be too busy giving birth on the kitchen floor, biting down on a wooden spoon so as not to disturb the men's card game, before going back to hoeing the rutabaga field.
Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.
I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.