I've never raped or killed anybody, or hurt a kid. I've done all the more inept, high-volume stuff - like, "Whoops, sorry I came in your hair. Don't worry, I won't use your name when I tell this story on stage."

Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.