Hey, I write books, yet none of these guys have ever given me a call, and I've been living in the city 16 years!
The fact is that Stephen Foster was the guy who first taught us all about how royalties work, and he basically said, "Hey, look, I wrote this song called 'O, Susanna.' I made a hundred dollars, but all these other publishers are publishing my song and making sheet music and making lots of money off of it, but I didn't get any of that.
While I'm not one to try to estimate any story's impact — hey, I just write words — I would question your point about having little overall value.
Deep into his sessions with Snowden in Hong Kong, he suddenly remembers Cincinnatus: "I thought perhaps he, too, had an important story to give me": "Hey: good news," I wrote to him.
Hey, remember last week I wrote the first edition of my new column?
He stopped me and said, 'Hey, Johnny, I write the cheques, I do the governance.
Julian never said: 'Hey, man, I write the songs.' I always felt pretty encouraged to bring in whatever I had".
And I said, "Why would I just say it?" And he said, "Because you're a cunt!" I just start laughing because it was so funny because the whole crew suddenly their mouths were open, and when I got up to him, he pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and said, "Hey, Leon, look what I wrote last night".
This time I wrote back: "Hey dumb ass.
