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It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

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America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds.

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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

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Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

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Every single record I have is a fossil.

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I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

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I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

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My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

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When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

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The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.

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One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

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I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

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Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

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I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

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I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

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For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

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To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

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It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

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Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch.

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I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

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As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

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To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

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Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

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'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

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