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

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

Men tend to dominate whatever public discourse they participate in, and another big part of feminism is to let women have their say. Men's voices can be welcome at the table, but there is a time and a place, and maybe it's now, for men to make a little less noise, make their needs less known, and listen to the needs of others.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

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