Yeh my Mum was a devotee of dale carnegie and got me to read How to Influence People.....

Do we really have to spend our lives waiting cravenly for some noisome dirty dog to show a flicker of niceness?

The thing is Bobert... can we afford to spend our lives, turning the other cheek - while Stinker Sam tries to work up the energy to fart down our other nostril?

Lets face it. some people just don't like us, and generally we don't like them very much. Presumably you've faced up to this with your music. I always found you needed to have the skin of a rhinoceros to go out gigging - I just decided these buggers weren't going to alter the fact of what I had decided to do with my life.

I think that should be a compulsory course in every college preparing kids for a life in the creative arts. Indifference to Assholes 101.