It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.