It turns out for me, having control is more important than having money.

I need to feel I have a choice in everything that I'm doing.

That's a real, that's the thing I can't live without.

This is death, sex, and money.

I made you a tape.

What I think are all romantic songs.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

You bought her a house.

And need to talk about more.

Rock and roll never dies, Thunderball.

I'm an assail.

The day I talked to musician Liz Faire, she came into the studio right before a recording session for a new song.

She told me the timing of our interview was intentional.

I'm worried about the song I'm going to be recording in the studio later today, which made it perfect to come here. I could have scheduled

going to the studio a different day, but I knew that I would be very stressed about the song

that I'm going to record today. So we put work in today to get me distracted enough to go to the

studio so I could do the song that I'm worried about. It sounds more complicated than it is really.

It's just that I've learned how to use my rebellious streak to my own advantage.

I think that's one of the graces of aging is that you get to know yourself well enough

to make your bad habits start to work for you.

Yes, exactly. How do we turn this into a productive habit?

Liz is 52, and that kind of self-knowledge is what makes her new memoir horror stories so good.

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