My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth

Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.