I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool.
I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.
The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she was one of the first people I tried to emulate. She's a local Austin blues artist. Marsha Paul I was also a very big fan of.
Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.
They said our first store in Austin would not work. Then they said it would not work outside Austin, that it would not work outside Texas, that we would never succeed in California or Chicago or New York. People dismissed us sort of a fad, just a bun...
Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.
I always love to come to Austin.
Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.
I was also in love with the English language.
Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.
People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
We think that we have great potential but never reach it.
There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.
My role model is my dad.
I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'
I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
