Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

I'd breed a little liberal army in the wood, just like these redneck lunatics I see at the local bar with their tribe of mutant inbred piglets.

Families that live out in the suburbs often make each other cry.

Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt.

But it's not only: What are you going to do about touring, it's: What are you going to do with your life? Is there a point to what we do? I think there is. Making music, creating beautiful things. We have to be in love with the good and the beautiful. If we are not, then you're in a nihilistic state.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.