Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.

If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

The Washington Post was interesting because it's such a politically minded newspaper.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.