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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
I would sing at home. I would sing in the car with my dad, but whenever he tried to make me sing in church, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not doing that.' I didn't want to sing in front of all these people.
To simply demand that Assad go, and create a vacuum, could make the circumstances worse. To 'protect' Assad and his brutality is unconscionable. So you have to have a transition period here.
'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.
Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.
I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
