Music careerists from Seattle would typically move to the closest media center, which was L.A.

There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience.

People are hard-wired for tribal identity.

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.

I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Faithfully, Calvi was following the rules to the letter. He knew one thing: Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who’d be next?

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

One of the things that attracted me to Barack [Obama] was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him - he is who he appears to be.

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.