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" Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability? "

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" This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. "

" For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed. "

" It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. "

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

" I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it. "

" I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. "

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

" The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk. "

" My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. "

" America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians. "

" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "

" I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town. "

" We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. "

" There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor. "

" One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise. "

" I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. "

" I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that. "

" I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great. "

" George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.' "

" In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since. "

" There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand. "

" Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes. "

" In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. "

" When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened. "

" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "

" No one should die when they're 50. "

" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "

" Between the Dinosaur Jr. albums and his recent solo albums, 'Several Shades of Why' and 'Heavy Blanket,' J Mascis is emerging as one of the last men from all that '80s indie madness, still writing songs that you want to listen to over and over. "

" August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. "