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I've Never Met Anyone With A Perfect Upbringing. It Seems To Me That Life On Planet Earth Just Doesn't Work That Way. The Basic Challenges Of Getting Our Needs Met And Managing Boundaries Are Inherent In Growing Up Human.

What We Were Trying To Do Was Take The Notion Of Greek Tragedy, Of Fated And Doomed People, And Instead Of These Olympian Gods, Indifferent, Venal, Selfish, Hurling Lightning Bolts And Hitting People In The Ass For No Reason — Instead Of Those Guys Whipping It On Oedipus Or Achilles, It’s The Postmodern Institutions . . . Those Are The Indifferent Gods.

That's What We Were Interested In: How Power And Money Ran Itself, Much More So Than 'drugs Are Bad, Drugs Are Good.' That Seems To Me A Simple Moral Equation And One You Don't Have To Spend 60 Hours Of Television Examining. And I Think The Same Thing Is True With How We Approached Pornography Or Prostitution. Prostitution's Been Around Since The Bible, And Pornography's Been Around Since About 15 Minutes After The French Guy Invented The First Camera.

I Had A Great Editor, Rebecca Corbett, From The Time I Was A City Reporter Right Through To The Years I Worked On The 'sun's' Enterprise Reporting Team.

African American Music Can't Happen In Germany Or In Italy Or In Mumbai. If America Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth Today, The Greatest Single Cultural Loss Would Be Blues, Jazz, Hip-hop, R&b, Rock-and-roll.