So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty. It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. I look forward to working out every day. I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home. When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year. I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11. We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings. I don't intend to retire. It's important to be successful enough to be able to keep doing what you love. Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much. I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. Math - it's not my best subject. He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. You cannot always run at your best. The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that. I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value. What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. What's another word for Thesaurus? Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.