If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

I love to go on stage and sing.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

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