Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e. 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics but kind of civic engagement and that kind of thing except I tended to think 'Well do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me it was all about jazz.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped and pretended like it didn't happen.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.