We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.
I can tell you, having been in court today in New York, that the requests for the video outtakes have been dropped.
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.
I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.
I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.
At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain. " I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.
I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.