But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

I think music is another language.

I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.

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.

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

Slavery doesn't have any positives.

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