and i said, "you're not eddie van halen." the guy had short hair. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. he cut his hair. >> yeah, he cut his hair. >> jimmy: i do remember that. >> and then once in the same bar. i should not have hung out in this bar. [ laughter ] this guy came up to me and said, "thanks for all the music, man. thanks for all the music." "sunglasses at night" is a killer song. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he thought you were corey hart? >> corey hart, yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i love that song. yeah. did you go along with it? >> yeah, sure. >> jimmy: were you wearing sunglasses? >> i took that so far that i actually collect residuals. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh come on. now you were telling me backstage a pretty funny thing, a famous guy pulled up to you next to you at a red light. >> in vancouver, too, not in a bar because i'm driving. >> jimmy: you're responsible. >> and he goes, "hey, love your work, man." and i'm like, "hey, dude, thank you." no, no, "lover boy. lover boy" and i'm like, "cool. everybody's working for the weekend."

i heard ed van halen when do you think it's good and he said i don't know just the ground sound. on a level -- >> rose: do you write it and feel it. >> i can feel it during the writing but more often irtsd sort of like looking at it and going not quite and i do a rinse lab repeat, hundreds of recisions. by the end the whole thing is kind of hopefully got a little charge to it. and then that produces plot and that produces but without that jangle, kind of getting the feel of the prose and being open to follow where it leads. even if it goes where you don't want it to go. >> rose: the this has been true from the beginning. >> there was about eight years where i was frantically denying that and trying to write from -- >> rose: you wanted to be hemingway. >> yes, wanted to be hemingway very much. i had the idea, the hardest job was to know the effect he or she was going to get and sort of dump it on the reader kind of puppeteer. it's condescending. so when i finally i guess a crises point after we were first married and i wasn't having any luck and i sort of brought forth this set of

i would like to think maybe 10 years from now, i would be in 80's hear rock cover band playing van halen. for the meantime, not so much. >> our guest has been professor jason brennan. his book is "libertarianism: what everyone needs to know." thank you for joining us. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> for a dvd copy of this program call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at www.q-and- a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> next your calls and comments on "washington journal." and then we talk about them as well abbas political future and then we talk about u.s. immigration policy. >> the fundamental idea to hear is that if you spend time in silicon valley, if you spend time in detroit where the automobile industry is being rebuilt, if you spend at -- time outside the beltway, you think america has the potential to generate abundance for its own citizens and the world. if you spend time only inside the beltway, it looks like a zero sum game, it looks like lose lose and who will lose the most. what we tried

i would like to think maybe 10 years from now, i would be in 80's hear rock cover band playing van halen. for the meantime, not so much. >> our guest at an -- our guest has been professor jason brennan. his book is "libertarianism: what everyone needs to know." thank you for joining us. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> for a dvd copy of this program call 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at www.q-and- a.org. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> next, british prime minister david camerota

i would like to think maybe 10 years from now, i would be in 80's hair rock cover band playing van halen. for the meantime, not so much. >> our guest has been professor jason brennan. his book is "libertarianism: what everyone needs to know." thank you for joining us. >> thank you. i appreciate it. clacks for a dvd copy of this program, call -- for free transcript or to give us your comments, visit us at q +a.org. we are also available as c-span2 podcasts

i heard ed van halen when do you think it's good and he said i don't know just the ground sound. on a level -- >> rose: do you write it and feel it. >> i can feel it during the writing but more often irtsd sort of like looking at it and going not quite and i do a rinse lab repeat, hundreds of recisions. by the end the whole thing is kind of hopefully got a little charge to it. and then that produces plot and that produces, but without that jangle, kind of getting the feel of the prose and being open to follow where it leads. even if it goes where you don't want it to go. >> rose: the this has been true from the beginning. >> there was about eight years where i was frantically denying that and trying to write from -- >> rose: you wanted to be hemingway. >> yes, wanted to be hemingway very much. i had the idea, the hardest job was to know the effect he or she was going to get and sort of dump it on the reader kind of puppeteer. it's condescending. so when i finally i guess a crises point after we were first married and i wasn't having any luck and i sort of brought forth this set o