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" In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. "

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" I never thought about getting any tattoos removed. "

" I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless. "

" 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. "

" I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. "

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

" Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop. "

" When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up. "

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

" When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from. "

" One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism. "

" To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. "

" Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous. "

" Texas is as odd as it is vast. "

" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "

" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "

" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

" I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none. "

" Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them. "

" I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet. "

" Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country. "

" If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done. "

" I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet. "

" I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. "

" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "

" The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. "

" I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. "

" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "

" When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can. "

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

" The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. "