For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.