I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.