Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves
Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.
I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.
My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.
For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.
Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.