Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.