From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans.
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.
I'm not interested in observed reality.
The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.
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You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
