I write what I can. I think being able to write like Michael Connelly and have a character that goes from novel to novel, or to dramatize history like Vidal or Ellroy, or have an explosively inventive mind like Bulgakov, would be an incredible thing. I don't have that. I only have what I have.

I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on.

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.