I’m always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there’s been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, “Music sucks now!” I’ll go, “I don’t think so. Not over at my house.”
Anywhere you hang yourself is home.
Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.
Maybe I’m ego-tripping, but I don’t find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don’t think I need to hold back anything I think or feel.
I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don’t go out and party. I don’t smoke, drink or do drugs and I’m not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
Am I self-righteous? Why not? It’s not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.
Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I’m in the mail room of life; working up.
I’m not much of an improv guy. That’s a talent I don’t have.
Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they’re really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I’ve always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that’s attracted me as far as live.
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 start depopulating the military.
I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.
There’s nothing funny about, ‘Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.’ Who cares?
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.
Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they’re poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.
There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.
America is a rough room and you don’t know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.
I don’t get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I’m not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.
I can’t imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.