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" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "

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" Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. "

" I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing. "

" I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. "

" I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. "

" I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant. "

" 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. "

" And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. "

" Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold. "

" I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. "

" August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. "

" I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others. "

" I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with. "

" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "

" Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth. "

" 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. "

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

" Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. "

" I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's too loud, you are indeed too old, and that if it has been standing for too long, it needs a thorough inspection. "

" If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest. "

" My motto is, 'Never quit.' "

" Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me. "

" The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser. "

" Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it. "

" Some music really does suck! "

" Sleep is for squares. "

" To my ears, jazz sounds better in warm weather and after the sun has gone down. While I will listen to some of my favorite jazz records in cooler weather, it's the warmer nights that really make them come alive. Something about those sounds and the heat of the night really makes it happen for me. "

" I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. "

" Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice. "

" I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. "

" Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello. "