All my big heroes are literary, writers.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.

A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, "Hey let's go get some coffee and talk" thing is going to be at all helpful.

When you start thinking as far as what's a good photo, unfortunately everything starts looking like a good photo.

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

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.