I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
I love 'Harry Potter.' I love those books. That started because I lived with a woman who had kids who were, like, 10 and 7 when they moved in with me.
My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.
Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.