I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

There are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more. Because Americans, it's easy to make us freak out. When the going gets rough, you have to get conservative. That's what's happened to America in the last eight years. I just try to point out that there's more going on than most people pay attention to.

Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.

Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.

Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.