What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

The rebellious mood of the country during those [60th] years allowed me to plug right back into my old hatreds. I could scream and holler, as I did on the albums, against religion, government, big business - all those assholes and their values. That hatred was very real.

Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers.

You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?