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" I'm most comfortable on stage. "

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" I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes potentially had, in their own hands, the record you now have in yours is kind of cool. When the musician has departed, it can give the thing a unique power. "

" As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me. "

" As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. "

" I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran. "

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

" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "

" I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical. "

" I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past. "

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

" Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people. "

" The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. "

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

" Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' "

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" 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. "

" You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other. "

" There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful. "

" It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. "

" I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. "

" 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. "

" Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. "

" 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. "