The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem..

Without an education, you won't have a future..

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at ….

Songs sung under duress are often very powerful..

I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It….

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you..

I believe that capitalism, at least how it's used by major corporations, and environmental concerns are in opposition. To be ecologically aware, prod….

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement..

As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or the….

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get i….

Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmle….

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians..

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind..

It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to star….

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well..

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous..

The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself..

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf..

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous..

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out..

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking..