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

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do.