When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

Any alternative culture that inspires a lot of passion and inspiration is also in danger of being set in its ways, almost from the moment it's born.

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.