There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.

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

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

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

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.