People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that….

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me..

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things..

A rose trapped inside a fist..

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations..

Trayvon Martin did not need to die..

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money o….

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else..

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and p….

Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming..

Live music is the cure for what ails ya..

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility..

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror..

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better..

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down..

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of t….

If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to..

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets s….

It's always been impressive to me when someone can really do what they want onstage. The audience has confidence in the performer and the performer h….

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed..

I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's….