Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks Im nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. Its not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.
Hard to find and even harder to listen to
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.
Our job here is to defend freedom.
I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.