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" The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. "

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" My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man. "

" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "

" If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. "

" 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 am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. "

" 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. "

" People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. "

" I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else. "

" Some music really does suck! "

" The world's a better place since I chose music. "

" 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 Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "

" 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. "

" When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own. "

" That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. "

" It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. "

" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "

" I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it. "

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

" We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it. "

" It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something. "

" 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. "

" The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business. "

" I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do. "