I Didn't Cross The Line,

My Mate Karl Once Told Me He’d Been Looking After This Five-year-old Boy Who – Not Knowing Enough To Have An Ironic Inflection To His Words – Said, ‘i Want Something.’ He Didn’t Know What It Was. Not ‘i Want Sweets’, Or ‘a Can Of Coke’, Or ‘to Watch The Tweenies’, Or Whatever It Is They’re Into Now (i Like Bagpuss), But ‘i Want Something.’ All Of Us, I Think, Have That Feeling. And What Heroin Does When You First Start Taking It Is Tell You What That Something Is.

And I Don't Think We Should Be Continuing To Propagate The Idea That Famous People Are Magical Or Special Because It Makes People Feel Like Their Lives Ain't No Good.

People Have Always Said, Are You Gay? I've Had A Lot Of That. But It's Just Not In Me. I Really Like Women A Lot; I'm Repulsed By Men Sexually.

I Suppose I'm Qualified To Some Degree To Speak About The Nature Of Contemporary Media, As That's Where I Currently Work. People, I Think Have Been Beyond Trained - Coded To Not Anticipate Change; To Think That Change Is Implausible. Almost Weaned Off. It Had To Be A Revolution Bred Out Of Us.

The Revolution That's Required Isn't A Revolution Of Radical Ideas, But The Implementation Of Ideas We Already Have.