Nothing personal about it, ... And it certainly was not a request for special favors, which we wouldn't have given him anyway.

It's got to be tempting to allow yourself to be flattered, buttered-up, helped, given favors and so forth. It's hard to refuse them unless you very consciously recognize that it's one of the permanent ethical challenges of that life.

There's a lot of evidence to the contrary. If that were the case, then we certainly would not be doing this.

That provision is not in there at our request.

For him, there was nothing that was not normal. He asked for a product that was given to him, and he even got change.

There are some elements that are tonal and some are not. But nothing so far out you can't grasp it. It's appealing music.