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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

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

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

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

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.

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

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

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

There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented.

I don't need music for the good times. I don't have that kind of need. Music doesn't serve me like that.

If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot.

It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

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

I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

I really enjoy the lattitude I have with being a private citizen. I can get a lot done. I am good with that.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

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

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

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

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

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

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

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.

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

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