going through life thinking of themselves as something lancasterer than themselves. they are going through life thinking like it s their own personal biopic in which they re the star and everybody else is just extra. social media doesn t help. bill: they encourage it. it would be. bill: one-on-one thing there is no community in the social media i have got to ask you this. new york city public school system says you can say f you in the classroom in front of all of those kids not get suspended. stay in that classroom and you might get an admonition. do you think that s a good policy? that s a little bit different. we need to give more power to the teachers. we need to bill: if you were the head of the school district here in new york city. the kid curses out a teacher, you suspend the kid? i would suspend the kid.
hendrix. they never seem to learn. it s hard to predict to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist but that s what makes them an artist. that sense of creativity. that thing that makes them particular is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good. bill: what was the most dynamic talent that you saw? because you basically are a guy who is looking for the next big thing in rock. when i came to sony i signed mariah carey i had the chance to work with michael jackson who was as brilliant as they come. because this is thriller, thriller night. bill: you couldn t get through to him on the social level though? it wasn t my job to get through to him. my job was to get the best possible music that he could make and that i could sell for him. that was really what my role was. bill: was that a difficult process? it wasn t easy. it could take years sometimes.
hendrix. they never seem to learn. it s hard to predict to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist but that s what makes them an artist. that sense of creativity. that thing that makes them particular is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good. bill: what was the most dynamic talent that you saw? because you basically are a guy who is looking for the next big thing in rock. when i came to sony i signed mariah carey i had the chance to work with michael jackson who was as brilliant as they come. because this is thriller, thriller night. bill: you couldn t get through to him on the social level though? it wasn t my job to get through to him. my job was to get the best possible music that he could make and that i could sell for him. that was really what my role was. bill: was that a difficult process? it wasn t easy.
hendrix. they never seem to learn. it s hard to predict to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist but that s what makes them an artist. that sense of creativity. that thing that makes them particular is probably the very thing that pushes them to the extremes that sometimes can cause, you know, fatalities and things that, you know, that end up not being good. bill: what was the most dynamic talent that you saw? because you basically are a guy who is looking for the next big thing in rock. when i came to sony i signed mariah carey i had the chance to work with michael jackson who was as brilliant as they come. because this is thriller, thriller night. bill: you couldn t get through to him on the social level though? it wasn t my job to get through to him. my job was to get the best possible music that he could make and that i could sell for him. that was really what my role was. bill: was that a difficult process? it wasn t easy. it could take years sometimes.
believe i got dispended. neither can i. it s suspended. the school says hey, that s not what happened. oh o, god. bill: the school said he was little alex was throwing rocks, real rocks. is that what they said? i was unaware of that kids these days they can curse in school. god for bid a kid simulates a military. bill: he has a little military jacket along with the jeans. i actually have the same size. he was doing his own version of caution. he wasn t doing. caution. [ laughter ] you have entered the playground. the thing is though these violent pretend games have to stop. we have to replace these games with softer things. instead of cops and robbers, folk singers and yoga instructures. instead of cowboys and indians community organizers and transgendered activists. teach these kids to feel and to care. bill: i believe this kid probably was throwing rocks. in 3rd grade sal mow dika he