We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.
But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.
Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other side.
You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
