Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

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.

The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.