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

Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

I got turned on to rock music almost by mistake when I was seven years old.

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.

I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather be a part of history than just sit and watch it on TV." So, the fact that so many people are starting to ask the right questions and rack their brains for solutions does give me hope.