With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.
Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.
Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
Every single record I have is a fossil.
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
America is off-the-hook gay. I will not go all Ann Coulter on you and say, 'Our gays are better than their gays,' but as far as countries go, we are in-your-face gay.
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.
But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
