Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

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.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.