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" If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings. "

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" More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes. "

" America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice. "

" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "

" I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless. "

" I get letters from young people telling me that they're broke and download my albums for free. They ask me what I think about that. I now have a standard line. I tell them, 'I would rather be heard than paid.' "

" I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. "

" I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. "

" I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other. "

" I have not the smarts or patience for political office. "

" I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. "

" I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly. "

" Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree. "

" I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N. "

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

" It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. "

" Every single record I have is a fossil. "

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

" I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail. "

" Texas is as odd as it is vast. "

" If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry. "

" I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. "

" I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself. "

" We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. "

" So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life. "

" Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors. "

" I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. "

" I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. "

" My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice. "

" Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! "