As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."

I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go here's the film I want to do and everyone runs around... I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.