I TRY to create something that draws you in without overthinking it. Something that resonates with you automatically that you don't have to think about. That's what the best POP is about: MICHAEL Jackson, The Beatles, Nirvana - these GUYS made some of the most authentic and popular MUSIC.

Millions of us track ourselves all the TIME. We STEP on a scale and RECORD our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our BEHAVIOR automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more MEANINGFUL.

I HAPPEN to be a guy who ALSO plays the PIANO and sings, so people AUTOMATICALLY associate me with Billy Joel.

My father ALWAYS told my SISTERS and me that once you succeed, PEOPLE will AUTOMATICALLY be QUIET. And he was right.

When you work with SOMEBODY else, you automatically GET a mixed voice. You hope it will BENEFIT the STORY. But you don't know what the result will be.

I THINK you should automatically donate your ORGANS because that would TURN the balance of organ DONATION in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation BIT.

Those LABELED felons may be denied the RIGHT to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, MUCH like their grandparents or GREAT grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow ERA.

It isn't as if a WRITER merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as LITERATURE; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into WHATEVER NARRATIVE is at hand.

The benefits of globalization do not trickle down automatically. It TAKES POLITICS to MAKE SURE that there is a benefit.

I choose to MAKE it my job to not AUTOMATICALLY BELIEVE what the U.S. government SAYS.

A MAN does not automatically become a PUBLIC FIGURE because he happens to BUILD an empire out of chicken fat.

When you accept a role in a pilot, you AUTOMATICALLY sign up for five years. You think it's scary to walk down the aisle? Try SIGNING a five-year contract for a show you MAY not want to be part of down the ROAD.

You don't AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME everyone will fall for a period DRAMA.