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"I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail."
"I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work."
"This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky."
"I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity."
"Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians."
"After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band."
"Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone."
"I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office."
"I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things."
"I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet."
"America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of."
"If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’"
"Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch."
"No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away."
"I cling to my memories of glorious desperation."
"I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out."
"Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know."
"You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair."
"I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book."
"I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile."