The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.
We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!
When I do shows in the U. K. , I see lots of people bring their kids to the show. Which is perfect because I am the world's most embarrassing mom.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Who can rest until the moment of action?
Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.
Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?