I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath

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.

News footage came on the TV during dinner of bloody bodies coming back from battle in Vietnam, or the race riots in the South, people getting hosed in Selma, Alabama, or the Biafra war, where I got my name. In my household, it was explained and discussed with the children, as a way of educating us from when we first started grade school why racism and war were wrong, what this all really means.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

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