We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money.

We made the record on our own and basically paid for it out of our tour money.

The sweetest guy you ever met.

The sweetest guy you ever met.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

This is the time of year it always happens.

This is the time of year it always happens.

It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own read more

It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?

It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves read more

It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves with burnt ash to remind us of our sinfulness, forgiveness and mortality. It sets the tone for the penitential season leading up to Easter.

What happens after the October meeting is far from clear.

What happens after the October meeting is far from clear.

Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights read more

Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled ""anti-Semitic.""

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man read more

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs /apart from discernment /a certain greatness to find him.