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I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired. ”
I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song. ”
My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs. ”
The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like. ”
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with. ”
I'm forever reading on the Internet that I apparently cultivate this audience and never go badly. ”
It's interesting to me that apparently distasteful comments from the Right against weak targets tend to draw a lot less media fire than apparently distasteful comments from the Left against hard targets. That's one of the threads that runs through the show and that people hopefully pick up on. ”
When I did 'Jerry Springer: The Opera,' there was a big fuss, largely centered around the misrepresentation of its content. Had Twitter existed then, that would have been over in a week because people who had actually seen it would have been able to get control of the story through social media. ”
People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference. ”
I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me. ”