I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.