Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

If you like to argue just for the sake of being contentious, you shouldn't pick a job based on this unresolved emotional issue of yours, you should get counseling for it.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

We're not a political band. We don't want to tell people what to do or what to think. We just want to tell them to think.