Tetragrammaton.

Nothing has really changed.

It's the same story over and over again.

I've been working in Hollywood, which I hated, and the games, the tactics, things people were doing,

were just like things I've been reading about in the pages of Machiavelli.

People aren't as violent and overt, but it's the same hunger for power.

They don't want to admit it.

And so that book came from a lot of pain inside of me of bad experiences of being on the wrong

end of power and being kind of resentful, that people

got away with this and nobody talks about these kinds. You know in the music business better

than anybody what I'm talking about, because I've known quite a few musicians. One of my oldest

friends was in a band, Mazzie Starr, and David Robach. Do you ever know David? I don't know David, but I love Mazzie Star. David Robach do you ever know David I don't know David okay

but I love Mazzie Star oh yeah he was the guitarist and uh it like how the music industry just

destroyed him just as a person he you know he became an alcoholic he he died when he was just a couple

years ago and I love that guy more when he was just a couple years ago.

And I love that guy more than he.

He was wonderful human being.

But the stories he would tell about the betrayals, the lying, the money games,

just broke my heart.

So I had similar things in Hollywood, not nearly quite as extreme.

So it came from that kind of power

of kind of almost wanting revenge on that world

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