If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.