I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.