The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.

I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.