Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively. . . writing songs was king.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't. ' I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.
I'm talking about the '60s really. People go interview these guys and ask them, "Do you still think music can change the world?" I mean, go talk to Graham Nash about that. What's he going to tell you? Ask David Crosby. These guys are still out there. They're playing their hits at Staples Center and those are really valuable songs. I'm talking about a couple of the guys who got knee-deep into really believing music had a great service beyond radio. I believe it did. And I think a lot of those songs are great.
There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind
Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal species was entirely an illusion. The illusion could be explained by evolutionary processes that contained no such purpose at all. But the spread of ideas through imitation required the whole apparatus of human consciousness and intentionality
Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry. . . Money, food, and time donated to Catholic charities should not be misread as a sign for success for volunteerism, but rather a desperate attempt to feed the hungry people when others have abandoned their responsibility.
The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.