I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

It's much tougher to be a restaurant critic now. You have to take a subway out to Brooklyn. I wouldn't want to do it.

I have friends who have no choice; they came from whatever town, they didn't have anybody in entertainment and they just knew they wanted to act and they did it.

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.