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"I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me."
"When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community."
"I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill."
"I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me"
"I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade."
"I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life."
"I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something."
"I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs."
"Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs."
"I like the idea of going out with a woman and not doing anything, and just eating dinner and talking, and that's cool, too. So, someone might look at me and say, "No way, man. He's just banging strippers." And I do that, but not all the time."
"In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would."
"If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America."
"People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters."
"Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there."
"I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent."
"If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available."
"As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show."
"Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up."
"For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa."
"I am too far gone to be rehabilitated."