My mother whom I love dearly has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce step-children dysfunction and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
After Nixon resigned in 1974 he engaged in a very aggressive war with history attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily history won largely because of Nixon's tapes.
In the tumult of men and events solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
In the history of the treatment of depression there was the dunking stool purging of the bowels of black bile hoses attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America I am outraged.
Nor is it the least advantage to health accruing from such a way of life that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice than persons who live in crowded society.
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health which never happened.
Because we spoke so loudly opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
When small men attempt great enterprises they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.