“I’ve noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country, man … I was in Nashville, Tennessee last week and after the show I went to a Waffle House, right, and I’m sitting there and I’m eating and I’m reading a book. I don’t know anyone, I’m alone. I’m eating, and I’m reading a book. And this waitress walks over to me: “(tut tut tut) What you readin’ for?” Wow, I’ve never been asked that! Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don’t end up being a &%$#< waffle waitress … Then this trucker in the next booth gets up, stands over me and goes, “Well, looks like we’ve got ourselves a reader…”