"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."
I must study politics and war, tapestry and porcelain.
If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.