I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you.