When I Hear A Politician Speak Biographically,

When You're Reading A Newspaper And You're Seeing Ads On The Page, It's Not Kind Of Invasive. Like, It's On The Page Next To The Article. You Can Look At It Or Not. You Can Turn The Page When You're Ready. On The Internet, The Ads - Many Of The Ads - Just Are So Controlling. They Insist That You See Them.

Dad Mistook - For Some Reason Unbeknownst To Me - He Mistook His Family For A Platoon Of Marines. I Mean, He - The Exact Same Thing He Brought To The Disciplining Of A Squadron, A Battalion, A Platoon, He Brought To The Disciplining Of His Children. He Ran The House - He Had Saturday Morning Inspections For Us, He Had White-glove Inspections For Us As Kids.

I Mean, Dad Was One Of These People Who Simply Could Not Lose, You Know? He Could Not Stand It When A Kid Was Beating Him. He Would Go Crazy When The Child Came To That Moment, Which, You Know, You Have To Come To - I Mean, Dad Played Old Maids Like He Played Football. He Just Simply Had To Win Every Single Thing Every Single Time.

The Line Changed My Life 'cause I Thought Of Some Poor Woman I Hadn't Even Met Walking Around The United States Or The World Not Knowing She's Going To Be Beaten Up By Me And These Kids, Unborn, Not Knowing They Were Going To Be Born Into The Family Of A Child-beater Just Because I Was. So It Really Did Have A Great Effect On Me.

"the Prince Of Tides" Is A Lot About My Mother - What My Mother Would Do After Dad Would Hit One Of The Kids Or Hit Two Of The Kids, Hit All The Kids, Hit Her, She Would Usually Get In The Car. We'd Drive Out. She Would Say, I'm Going To Divorce Him. I'm Never Going Back.