I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.

I don't think there's a problem. First of all, I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.