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" Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy. "
Yellowstone
Happiest
Guy
" Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life. "
Art
Going
Life
" Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs. "
Better
Time
Enjoy
" Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends. "
Sometimes
Today
You
" I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago. "
Control
Me
People
" I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena. "
Still
Club
Five
" If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean? "
Beer
Christmas
Tree
" I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you. "
Go
Just
Tell
" I'm a studio rat. I like going in there as producer. "
Rat
Studio
Producer
" I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots. "
Get
Firm
Good
" I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke. "
Past
You
Smoke
" I'm not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day. "
Every Day
Day
Real
" I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope. "
Still
Recluse
Hate
" I never read comic books as a kid. "
Kid
Comic
Books
" It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records. "
Because
You
Sell
" I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it. "
Living
Life
Reality
" Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do. "
Song
Think
Society
" Listen, man: I am not the industrial godfather, king, whatever. I don't relish that title. I don't like it. I think it's limiting. I do country, I do blues. I don't just go straight. "
Think
Man
King
" Nothing exceeds like excess. "
Like
Nothing
Excess
" Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there. "
Roads
Building
Live
" Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded. "
Pretty
Me
Think
" There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. "
Society
New York
Art
" This administration affects the everyday life of the common person. "
Life
Person
Everyday Life
" This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career. "
Thing
Got
Way
" When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow. "
Getting Old
Selling
Listen
" You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot. "
Me
Person
School
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