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

Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.