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

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.