Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.
I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.
I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.
I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.
Some music really does suck!
I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995.
Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.
I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.
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 harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star.
To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.
I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.
If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.
There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.
August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.