I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s talking about the army basically working for Wall Street in all of these countries [it invades].

The world's a better place since I chose music.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.