We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

Love heals scars love left

There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

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