With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.