It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.

A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful.

There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

I think Tim Wakefield would even say tonight that Tim Wakefield got to Tim Wakefield tonight.