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A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

A gun in your hand makes a fool out of you. A gun in your hand makes a target out of me.

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

All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

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

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.

Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.

Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.

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

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

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

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

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

A rose trapped inside a fist.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

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.

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out.

As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

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

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.