I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.

I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.