J. Tillman

I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.