The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it.

The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.