If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Everything comes down to Dollars

How pleased I was to see I strick the Beast to the heart.

New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They're heavy to lift up when they're throwing tantrums.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.