Life is weird, great and dangerous.

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.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations. Nowadays, the media have to be there for them, to keep you from asking too many questions, from getting together with other people who might want to do the Jeffersonian thing and call out the government.