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" Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. "

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" I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. "

" No one should die when they're 50. "

" 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. "

" For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes. "

" I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie. "

" I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. "

" I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. "

" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "

" In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since. "

" 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. "

" Sleep is for squares. "

" With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. "

" Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. "

" As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it. "

" I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. "

" We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot. "

" My motto is, 'Never quit.' "

" I'm most comfortable on stage. "

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

" To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a tour, I seek the most oblivionated music possible. When it's the 'way out there' that I seek, I go right to my stash of amazing music from Japan. "

" I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious. "

" As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did. "

" In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that. "

" I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. "

" I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future. "

" Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. "

" Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. "

" I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. "

" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "

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