I was NEVER INFORMED in advance about the start of the WAR or about FOREIGN political developments.

After my cancer DIAGNOSIS this year, I was offered a CHOICE of treatments. I wanted to make an INFORMED DECISION. This meant reading scientific papers. Had I not used the stolen material provided by Sci-Hub, it would have cost me THOUSANDS.

'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the SCOPE of my writing - with personal commentary that PUTS the WORKS in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has FORMED, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

I am reluctant to JUDGE THINGS WITHOUT being INFORMED.

The costermongers' BOYS will, I am INFORMED, CHEAT their employers, but they do not STEAL from them.

You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also TRY to stick to my job as FILMMAKER and be fair and TRUTHFUL about what I saw and my EXPERIENCE of the people, hopefully INFORMED by a deep understanding of them.

As a JOURNALIST, I fundamentally BELIEVE that KEEPING the PUBLIC informed is an essential part of DEMOCRACY.

There is an ARMY of the INFORMED WANTING to be more informed.

Informed by our SAD experience of history, we REQUIRE NOTHING short of a foundation for lasting DEMOCRACY.

Unlike the Japanese internment, water-boarding was ORDERED and served up in secret. But it, too, was America's policy, not just Dick Cheney's. CONGRESS was informed about what was happening and raised no OBJECTION. The public KNEW, too.

Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind DANGEROUS illusions. The victory was so decisive, and information about it so carefully managed, that the American PUBLIC was never CLEARLY informed that it was purchased at the price of approximately 100,000 IRAQI lives.

My father ALSO happened to be an intellectual, as LEARNED, literate, informed, and CURIOUS as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and CASUALLY, he was my wise and gentle TEACHER.

My EXPERIENCE in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it's DIFFICULT for me to wrap my mind around the IDEA that I will no LONGER be a soldier.

I think the American electorate should work a little HARDER at GETTING INFORMED. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're LEFT or RIGHT.

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done BEHIND my BACK, WITHOUT my permission, and the band informed me that I WOULD no longer be paid on them at all.