All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.