I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

If you want something done, you'll have to dream it yourself.

It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside.

That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him—we were both unable to get near the real life in life.

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.