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.

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.