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" The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time. "

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" I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore. "

" I take the work seriously, just not myself in it. "

" Some music really does suck! "

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

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

" I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience. "

" I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town. "

" I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen. "

" I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. "

" I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza. "

" Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. "

" 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. "

" When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem. "

" Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal. "

" The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture. "

" To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need. "

" Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. "

" Every single record I have is a fossil. "

" The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. "

" America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. "

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" 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 have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians. "

" If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. "

" I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. "

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

" My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one. "

" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "

" I'm most comfortable on stage. "