Although she's been playing country since 1997's The Virginian album (as Neko Case and Her Boyfriends), she's also known for her work with the Canadian indie collective the New Pornographers ("It's such a cheap and easy gratification, and a good way to make lots of excuses for lots of singing," she says of her continuing work with them).
There was a culture of easy gratification and entitlement and all the rest of it.
"There was a culture of easy gratification and entitlement and all the rest of it," he told the Today programme, while talking about last year's riots.
In a rare uncalculating moment, Boris Johnson wrote last year that, if Britain finally ended its "sterile debate" over Europe by leaving the EU, it would quickly discover "that most of our problems are not caused by Brussels, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills and a culture of easy gratification and under-investment".
Mr Johnson said "most of our problems" were caused by "chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification and under-investment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure".
Many of us are of a generation accustomed to the instant and easy gratification of the internet age – click and get, with minimal effort.
Anyone listening to New Age gurus, such as Zukav and Deepak Chopra, and modern megachurch Christian preachers, cannot miss the emphasis on the individual finding easy gratification, rather than sacrificing and selflessly laboring for a better world.
If anyone knows about easy gratification and entitlement, it's our Bozza.
We come to understand how stranded she often feels, uprooted from all the traditions and beliefs she grew up with, and at the same time detached from the hectic life of easy gratification in America.
In the beginning, I didn't fully trust the relationship and performed only comic pieces, hooked on the easy gratification of the celebratory wash of laughter flowing from the audience.
Basically, a life filled with easy gratifications has become a source of gratifyingly big laughs.
