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

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

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 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.

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Life does not forgive weakness.

In code, it never pays to rush.

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Something that I like in movies, and I dislike too, is that they can't be projected well.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.