I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

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

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

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

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

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.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

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

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

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.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

You cant control the curve balls life throws you so you have to learn how to control yourself and change quickly to make sure the curve ball doesnt knock you out.

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

You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

I see myself as a story teller.

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

An enterprises most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

I have a husband who adores me.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.

I do not want to put U.S. companies in a position where their competitors are behaving in a way that is inconsistent with the way they are required to behave. That is neither fair, nor will it solve the problem.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

A lot of progressives really believe that if we can turn out one more white paper with bullet points about how to fix Problem X, we can fix it. But that's not primarily the way you reach people or move them. You reach the heart first.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a Ponzi scheme is misleading and does more to cloud the issue than it does to illuminate it. And yes, I do know that unless changes are made, the current system is unsustainable. But that doesn't mean it's fraud.

Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes whether acquired spontaneous or the result of accident.

I've smashed myself around, been on crutches, and broken a couple of bones when I was a kid.

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

Take that one thing you don't like about yourself and more often than not that's the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it's that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color.

When I tell a woman you really need to quit your soul-sucking job, she goes home, and she can tell her husband, 'I need to quit,' and he's like, 'O.K., let's do it.'

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.