Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.