The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

I see violence in myself; I've done some pretty violent things in my lifetime and I've been around some pretty severe violence all the way up to homicide.