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.
I don’t consider myself an actor, for me it’s employment. Like the actor who’s a waiter a lot, I’m an actor when I’m not on tour, in that that’s a job I can do.
I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.
Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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.
We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.
We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
I’ve enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I’ve been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they’re still very beautiful.
Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body – causing me injury or death – to be an assault weapon.
I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don’t always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don’t lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.
In fact, every place I’ve been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta, parts of Central and South America, I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.
Every single record I have is a fossil.
I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.
I don’t hate people – not remotely other than they make you crazy in traffic, but as I get older I kind of see more and more why people do what they do.
South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.
Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.