Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when t….

I put my name on that Occupy Musicians list because someone wrote to me and said, "Would you do this?" I said, "Yeah sure, I support this." What arti….

I actually looked up in my journal trying to figure out some dates and, in January 1991, America is about to go back into its first sort of actual wa….

Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actual….

There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would….

I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. ….

The fact that the U.S. government spends millions of dollars to send murderous robot planes into other people's land to murder them, into other count….

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, "What do we do? We want to do what you do." It's almost impossible to do ….

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense..

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they….

I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - peo….

I just have work to do; I just do it..

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears..

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and havin….

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to s….

Trenchmouth, really great band. Here's a photo of them in 1979 playing the Valley Green projects. It was an incredible, unusual experience. We ran a ….