Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

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.

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.