You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.