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" A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. "

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" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "

" As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. "

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" The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time. "

" 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. "

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" If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.' "

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" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "

" 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. "

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" Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. "

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" To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan. "

" To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer. "

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