There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.