There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.

It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It's hard to figure out what would benefit your kids and what would just make them needlessly frightened.