Where there is young people and vitality, you’re going to find punk rock.
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.
When someone asks you, ‘What’s punk?’ my reply is, ‘If you have to ask, you’re never going to know.’
All my big heroes are literary, writers.
Life is weird, great and dangerous.
Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
When you’re going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.
I’m of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me – the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.
The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.
One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.
If some band sucks, you’re going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don’t have the interest in issuing warnings.
One person’s disaster is another person’s talking point.