Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.