The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.
I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.
Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.
I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.
When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.
Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.
I never gave up on 'Archie.' I started picking up 'Archie' comics when I was in my thirties, and then I started subscribing to them.
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Every member of the U.S. Armed Forces knows what they signed up for, and they know what their job is, and they are proud of their job.
I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.
I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me.
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do things that can't be articulated, driven by inner turmoil they don't have access to.
