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Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

When I die, the world dies with me. I'd really like to leave it better than how I found it and I'm doing what I can to effect that.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

I love to go on stage and sing.

I can die anytime I want. I wish I could do the same with life.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.

I'm just a guy. I get treated like I'm famous but I don't take it seriously. I take the time people take out to check me out very, very seriously.

Respect is not a one way street

Well, there's Katrina, but you can go through lots of Kurdistan and it looks like Katrina was just there but there's people living in it.

I don't really have any women in my life, actually those two - the women in my life are two married women who work at my office.

After I wrapped 'Sons of Anarchy,' I traveled by myself for ten weeks. I started in Jordan and finished in Mali, in Timbuktu.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget
Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

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 can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

There is no place in the world like Australia. Not even its beautiful neighbor New Zealand.

I've said it before and I say it again: A man's got to do what a brainless idiot's got to do.

You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like it's all you know how to do.

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of ...

To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.

I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

It is you who makes me see what I really am.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

The ones who don't do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down.

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.

If the truth is told how I want to be remembered ... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.

I will never be able to pound words into lines
To match the velocity of your presence

Change is hard, but change is good.

An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

I will do my best to dodge tonight's depression
Hide in sleep
Damage myself in dreams
Wake up older, slightly more used.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free