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My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt. ”
For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families. ”
The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end. ”
I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. ”
If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession. ”
The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.' ”
Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example. ”
There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years. ”
I would love to end my career as World Champion. ”
Angel of Death' is like a history lesson, but as soon as we released it everybody was calling us Nazis. Our singer's a dark-skinned Chilean, there's no way we're fascists. ”