The First Amendment means everything to me.
With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for.
I don't like things to be static when I'm working.
I do like to be surprised.
I'm structured with time.
I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.
I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.
If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.
The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.
Let us see God before man every day.
Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.