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" A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere. "

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" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "

" August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. "

" I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. "

" The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me. "

" My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. "

" In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. "

" I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts. "

" I take the work seriously, just not myself in it. "

" I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work. "

" Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. "

" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "

" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "

" There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented. "

" Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite American city, I regard New York City as the most amazing city in the world. No other comes close. It is an incredible, inexhaustible engine. "

" It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid. "

" In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level. "

" My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work. "

" I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza. "

" 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 a professional food eater. "

" It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone. "

" All my big heroes are literary, writers. "

" When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. "

" Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. "

" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "

" I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. "

" Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i. "

" The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. "

" I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. "