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"I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor."
"'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse."
"Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness."
"Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes."
"Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say."
"Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with."
"Canadians are often a friendly bunch."
"America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians."
"Adolescence is a plague on the senses."
"Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician."
"Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do."
"I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside."
"I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time."
"Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come."
"I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent."
"For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement."
"A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process."
"My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records."
"What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience."
"You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment."