I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

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

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.