While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.