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If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

You can't write something to please someone.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.