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

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

There's a lot of stuff like that that American's don't know and since a lot of Americans don't have a passport, I'll get a passport for them and since a lot of Americans don't know what a war looks like thirty, forty years later and it's still doing damage.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.