There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.
My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.
I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.
If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.
I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.
We are bringing technology into governance in a very big way. This is making governance easy, effective, economic and transparent.
The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.
It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.
I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.