There Is A Concerted Effort To Keep You And Me, You Know, The People, Away From What It [war] Really Looks Like, 'cause When You're Selling War, When It's Such A Big Industry. What They Don't Tell You Is The Rest Of It And The Down Side Of It. And So Obviously There Is A Lot Of Money And A Lot Of Time And Effort Being Spent On That Campaign "perpetual War For Perpetual Peace".

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I Would Like Go To Palestine And Interview People There About What Their Lives Are Like; Same Thing In Iran.

Iran

People

Interviews

Music Files And Downloading Have Indeed Changed The Currency Of Music To A Great Degree.

Degrees

Currency

Changed

A Lot Of Americans Don't Have A Passport, Never Will Have A Passport. Not Only Will They Not Travel, They Don't Want To Travel.

Want

Passports

Want To Travel

Try Driving The Streets Of Los Angeles Without Seeing A Billboard Depicting A Film With A Lead Actor Holding A Gun. It's Almost As If Guns Are Harmless Props Used To Bring Out The Cheekbones And Jawline Of The Screen Star.

Stars

Gun

Trying

After Having Read A Lot Of Fiction, Literature, Whatever You Want To Call It, From Wolfe To Houellebecq, I Think You Have To Have An Understanding And Insight Of The Human Condition That Is Informed And Motivated By A Desire To Immerse Yourself In The Human World And Bring These Stories To Bear.

Thinking

Understanding

Desire

Castle Face Records, Run By The Oh Sees Main Man, Johnny Dwyer Is Always Worth Checking In With.

Running

Men

Castles

I Have Lived In Public As A Somewhat Recognizable Person Since I Was A Teenager. Emails I Answer End Up Posted On Sites; Pictures Of Me And Someone I Just Met, Taken By A Cellphone, Literally Number In The Thousands And Are Easily Accessed.

Teenager

Taken

Numbers

Jazz Music Is As American As It Gets, And So Is The U.s. Postal Service. A Miles Davis Stamp Is A Perfect Marriage Of Two Great American Institutions.

Two

Perfect

Jazz

Life Is A Hurdle And You'll Never Clear It. Death Is The End Of The Ride And You Fear It.

Death

Life Is

Ends

No Time For Drug Addiction, No Time For Smoke Or Booze. Too Strong For A Shortened Life Span, I've Got No Time To Lose.

Strong

Addiction

Alcohol

A Text Conversation Is A Short Exchange Of Often Grossly Truncated Language That Corresponds To A Thought Made All The More Shallow By The Process.

Language

Shallow

Made

I'm Not Much Of An Improv Guy. That's A Talent I Don't Have.

Guy

Talent

As A Young Person, I Wanted Everyone To Agree With Me.

Young

Wanted

Agree

In My Bright, Utopian Future World, They Will Hand Out College Educations Like Cups Of Water At The End Of The L.a. Marathon.

College

Hands

Water

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.

Inspirational

Life

Friends

Motivation Has Always Been A Fascinating Factor When Considering A Touring Artist, Especially When The Years Stack Up. What Keeps One Out There Year After Year?

Motivation

Artist

Years

When You See The Escalades And The Hummers Driving Down The Street, At Least In Los Angeles, This Dry, Flat Desert With Shopping Malls, When You See Someone Driving One Of Those Through This You're Like, 'you Are Definitely Part Of The Problem.'

Shopping

Desert

Dry

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.

People

Marketing

Records

If American Forces Leave Afghanistan, The Taliban Is Going To Do What To America? Don't Say You're Worried About What They Will Do To The Afghan People. If That Was America's Concern, America's Operational Presence There Would Be Much Different.

America

People

Different

When I Die, The World Dies With Me. I'd Really Like To Leave It Better Than How I Found It And I'm Doing What I Can To Effect That.

World

Found

Effects

One Of The Nice Things About A Favorite Pop Song Is That It's An Unconditional Truce On Judgment And Musical Snobbery. You Like The Song Because You Just Do, And There Need Not Be Any Further Criticism.

Song

Nice

Musical

Punk-rock Gave Music Back To People. For A Long Time, When I Was Very Young, I Went To Go See Arena Rock Bands. I Was 16 And It Was All I Could Get In To See, Legally. And I Saw Led Zeppelin And Ted Nugent And Van Halen And All That. Me And [minor Threat And Fugazi Vocalist] Ian Mackaye Would Go To These Concerts, And It Was Fun.

Fun

Rocks

Long

You Might As Well Enjoy The Day - You Never Know When And How Painfully It Could All End.

Might

Ends

Enjoy

And I Love The Hate Mail I Get, The Unsigned, Misspelled Letters I Get Telling Me To Go Back To Russia Or Wherever.

Hate

Russia

Letters

Will Punk Rock Ever Die? Pal, If You Have To Ask It's Dead To You.

Rocks

Pals

Punk

Sometimes You Can Get So Far In Yourself That You Don't Know Who You Are.

Self

Sometimes

Knows

The Bible Saw That Can Get A Lot Of People Killed, So Let's Try And Steer People Away From That. I Am Not An Expert On The Bible. I Am Just Saying.

People

Trying

Saws

Creativity Requires A Lot Of Pass/fail/start Again And It Is Often Hard On The Psyche.

Creativity

Failing

Hard

I Thought I Was Gonna Be In The Minimum-wage Working World All My Life.

Minimum Wage

World

Minimum

I Think It's Fantastic When The Young Enrage Their Elders. I Really Do Believe That If It's Too Loud, You Are Indeed Too Old, And That If It Has Been Standing For Too Long, It Needs A Thorough Inspection.

Believe

Thinking

Long

It's Difficult For Me To Be Around Anyone For Longer Than An Hour. Love, Death, Elation, Sorrow, I Just Don't Care All That Much About Any Of It. I Am At This Point, More Of An Observer/journalist.

Sorrow

Elation

Care

As Performers Grow Older, I Reckon There Are Two Ways They Can Go. They Can Either Be Up There, Playing More Deeply From Their Guts Than Ever, Or They Can Be Phoning It In So Crassly That It Leaves A Lump In Your Throat As You Leave The Venue At The End Of The Show.

Two

Way

Ends

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.

Nerves

Looks

Moral

I'm Not In A Position Where I Get To Pick And Choose Roles. I Usually Go On Auditions In Long Lines And Embarrass Myself In Front Of Casting Directors, And With A Lump In My Throat And My Ears Burning, I Walk Past Reception And Smirking Actors As I Go To The Parking Garage And Go Back On The Highway.

Past

Long

Directors

Don't Do Anything By Half. If You Love Someone, Love Them With All Your Soul.

Unconditional Love

Soul

Half

When Someone Asks You, 'what's Punk?' My Reply Is, 'if You Have To Ask, You're Never Going To Know.'

Punk

Knows

Asks

Without The Blues, Modern Music Would Be Nothing Like It Is Now - Not Remotely.

Would Be

Modern

Modern Music

I Forged Myself Out Of A Vacuum. I Crawl Along The Highway On Hacked Off Stumps Year After Year. Some Wonder How And Why. I Never Do.

Years

Vacuums

Wonder

Rock Is Ironic In That, Up To A Certain Point, You Can Get Better And Better At It If You Don't Mind Possibly Looking More And More Ridiculous.

Rocks

Ironic

Mind

I Hate Painting With A Broad Brush, But I Think The Birther Thing, At Its Root, Is Racist. The Guy Was Born In Hawaii. A Black Guy Is President. It's Cool. Get Over It. Just Deal With It. There's Nothing You Could Show These Birther People That Would Shut Them Up.

Hate

Thinking

Roots

I Will Do My Best To Dodge Tonight's Depression Hide In Sleep Damage Myself In Dreams Wake Up Older, Slightly More Used.

Dream

Sleep

Wake Up

I'd Like To Rid Myself Of Writing, To Surrender, To Release The Venom. And Hopefully At Some Point, I'll Be A Happy, Well-adjusted Guy And I'll Have No Need For All That 'art.'

Art

Writing

Guy

My Main Goal Is To Stay Alive. To Keep Fooling Myself Into Hanging Around. To Keep Getting Up Every Day. Right Now I Live Without Inspiration. I Go Day To Day And Do The Work Because It's All I Know. I Know That If I Keep Moving I Stand A Chance. I Must Keep Myself Going Until I Find A Reason To Live. I Need One So Bad. On The Other Hand Maybe I Don't. Maybe It's All Bullshit. Nothing I Knew From My Old Life Can Help Me Here. Most Of The Things That I Believed Turned Out To Be Useless. Appendages From Someone Else's Life.

Moving

Inspiration

Hands

It Is Amazing To Hear Grown-up People Rationalize Homophobia And Discrimination. The Lengths They Go To Trying To Prove Their Points Take Reason To Its Breaking Point.

People

Point Break

Trying

Songs Sung Under Duress Are Often Very Powerful.

Song

Powerful

Duress

He Looked At Her Something Turned Cancerous He Was In Love.

I Am Always Interested In An Opportunity To Learn Something.

Opportunity

Opportunities To Learn

How Memories Lie To Us. How Time Coats The Ordinary With Gold. How It Breaks The Heart To Go Back And Attempt To Re-live Them. How Crushed We Are When We Discover That The Gold Was Merely Gold-plating Thinly Coated Over Lead, Chalk And Peeling Paint.

Memories

Lying

Heart

I'm Mellower Now, I'm Over 50. But I Don't Think I'm Too Mellow. I'm Still Angry At A Lot Of Things.

Thinking

Mellow

Stills

I Have Been An Xl Fan Of Devo Since I Was In High School In The 1970s. Their Records Only Sound Better With Time.

School

Sound

Fans

If You Think About It, Every Single Species Is Endangered. Homo Sapiens At The Front Of The Line, Mosquitoes And Lawyers At The Back.

Thinking

Mosquitoes

Lines

To Our Enemies All Over The World Who Plan America's Demise, Please Take My Advice. Give Up Now. No Matter What, You Will Lose. You Will Lose It All.

Giving Up

America

Advice

I'm Not Into Fame. I'm Not Into Making Money, Outside Of Financing My Books. I'm Not Into Status. My Thing Is Basically About Time - Not Wasting It.

Book

Making Money

Fame

I Just Write What I Think Is Good And Keep It At A Thousand Words.

Writing

Thinking

Thousand

I Am Talking About Ultimate Deceit. I Am Talking About Unparalleled Treachery. Bottomless Lies. Depths That Are Seen That Are Previously Unimaginable. Darkness And Shattering Despair That Could Break Bones. Paranoia And Horror That Could Stop The Heart Cold. All Inflicted On One's Self By One's Self. The Soul Turns Schizophrenic And Goes Hopelessly Insane.

Lying

Heart

Self

'smile' Is Perhaps The Beach Boys' Most Legendary Album. It Was Recorded In 1966 And 1967 But Only Saw A Formal Release In 2011. That's A Long Time To Wait For What Was Said To Be Brian Wilson's Masterpiece.

Beach

Boys

Long

Hopefully, One Enhances [when Growing Older] His Sense Of Humor. As He Approaches 50, He'll Need All The Humor He Can Get.

Needs

Growing

Sense Of Humor

My Laptop Seems To Know Where I Am, Even If I Don't. My Cellphone Asks Me If I Want Directions To Anywhere From The Spot I Am Standing In. I Buy A Record Online And Amazon.com Sends Me Letters, Telling Me That People Who Bought What I Bought Also Bought These Other Records.

People

Amazon

Records

When People Hold You In High Esteem, It's Very Delicate Relationship. When They Meet You They're Putting All Their Chips Up. It's Make Or Break.

People

Make Or Break

Chips

Most Of The Writers I Like Just Intimidate And Humble Me But In That There's A Good Deal Of Inspiration To Be Had As Well.

Inspiration

Humble

Intimidating

In Fact, Every Place I've Been To In Africa Has A Nice Part, But You See The Downside. Calcutta , Parts Of Central And South America , I've Seen A Lot Of Dead Bodies And A Lot Of Sad Poverty And Just Obliteration.

Nice

America

Body

Friends Come And Go But 200lbs Is Always 200lbs.

Bodybuilding

Friends Come And Go

Comes And Goes

Young, Gay And Stuck In Arkansas? Sounds Like A Horror Flick.

Gay

Sound

Arkansas

When You Start To Doubt Yourself The Real World Will Eat You Alive.

Real

Doubt

Alive

I Don't Want To Go With The Smooth Skin And The Calm Brow. I Hope I End Up A Blithering Idiot Cursing The Sun - Hallucinating, Screaming, Giving Obscene And Inane Lectures On Street Corners And Public Parks.

Giving

Skins

Smooth Skin

It Wasn't Until My Late Twenties That I Learned That By Working Out I Had Given Myself A Great Gift. I Learned That Nothing Good Comes Without Work And A Certain Amount Of Pain. When I Finish A Set That Leaves Me Shaking, I Know More About Myself. When Something Gets Bad, I Know It Can't Be As Bad As That Workout.

Workout

Pain

Iron Will

For Me, Memphis Has Always Been A City That Holds A Great Deal Of Meaning And Also Leads Me To A Lot Of Thinking. Besides Sun Studio, Which Helped Put Rock N' Roll On The Map All Over The World, The Legendary Stax Studio Also Called Memphis Home.

Home

Thinking

Rocks

I'm Pessimistic. I Don't Think That Justice Always Gets The Right Person.

Thinking

Justice

Pessimistic

I Want To Learn More About The World. It Makes Me Want To Get Up And Go.

Travel

World

Want

Its No Surprise To Me That Anyone Hardly Tells The Truth About How They Feel. The Smart Ones Keep To Themselves For Good Reason. Why Would You Want To Tell Anyone Anything That's Dear To You? Even When You Like Them And Want Nothing More Than To Be Closer To Them? It's So Painful To Be Next To Someone You Feel So Strongly About And Know You Can't Say The Things You Want To.

Smart

Want

You Can Say, "well, I Have A Question," And Someone Will Say, "oh, So You Hate America." And It Has Nothing To Do With The Discussion At All.

Hate

America

Wells

Rarely Do I Do Film Press Because I'm So Low On The Food Chain Of The Movie, And For Me It's Just This Thing I Did For Four Weeks Before The Next Tour Started.

Four

Film

I Never Thought I Was Right For Tv Or That Tv Was Right For Me.

Tvs

If You Have An Idea Of What You Want To Do In Your Future, You Must Go At It With Almost Monastic Obsession. [...] You Have To Go At It Single-mindedly And Let Nothing Get In Your Way.

Ideas

Hustle

Want

The Perpetrators Of The Actual Bad Stuff That Does Real And Lasting Harm To People, Like Leakage Of Industrial Chemicals Into Water Systems, Seem To Get Not So Much As A Second Glance; The Bloviation From Media Pundits And Think Tanks Creates False Problems That Waste Time And Energy Debunking.

Real

Thinking

Media

I Get Along With Australians Really Well. Everyone's Usually Really Cool, And It's Always A Drag To Leave.

Really Cool

Drag

Wells

I Am The Flying Saucer Man From Another World Trapped On Yours Until They Come To Rescue Me. One Day The Saucer Will Land. Jimi Hendrix And John Coltrane Will Open The Hatch And Tell Me To Get In Before Someone Tries To Blow Up The Ship. I'll Just Ask What Took Them So Long. Within Seconds We'll Be Out Of Here.

Blow

Men

Land

I Don't Have Many Friends So The Phone Doesn't Ring And No One's Asking Me To Go Out And Go Dancing With Them.

Phones

Dancing

Asking

August Brings Into Sharp Focus And A Furious Boil Everything I've Been Listening To In The Late Spring And Summer.

Summer

Spring

August

Being In New York Is An Almost Overwhelming Experience. While Washington, D.c., Is My Favorite American City, I Regard New York City As The Most Amazing City In The World. No Other Comes Close. It Is An Incredible, Inexhaustible Engine.

New York

Cities

World

I Like The Idea Of Going Out With A Woman And Not Doing Anything, And Just Eating Dinner And Talking, And That's Cool, Too. So, Someone Might Look At Me And Say, "no Way, Man. He's Just Banging Strippers." And I Do That, But Not All The Time.

Men

Talking

Ideas

Some Soldier Will Say, 'you Know, Sir, You And I Have Some Political Disagreements, But I'm Glad You Came All The Way Out Here.' And You Know, You Say, 'well, Maybe One Day You'll See The Light But I'm Glad To Be Out Here With You.'

Light

Political

Soldier

And I Laugh At Myself When I Screw Things Up, Which Happens All The Time.

Laughing

Screws

Happens

I Think Americans Really Need To Start Thinking Globally. As Resources Become More Dear, We Will Be Pulled Closer To The Rest Of The World Anyway.

Thinking

Needs

World

If The Death Of Osama Bin Laden Brings Any Peace To Those Who Lost Loved Ones On That Awful Day In September 2001, That Is A Great Thing. It Is More Likely, However, Just A Painful Reminder Of What Was Lost.

Lost Love

Awful

September

I Am Not A Trained Actor And Am Not Near The Top Of Anyone's Want List. I Go After What I Am Offered, If I Am So Inclined. Now And Then, I Get Offers For Things That Are Not To My Liking, In That I Just Don't Care About The Story. All This Super Tough Guy Stuff Isn't Anything That Interests Me All That Much. I Can't Think Of Anything I Turned Down That I Regret.

Regret

Thinking

Guy

I'm Not A Young Man, And I Can Find Intensity In A Lot Of Different Ways, Sometimes Without Even Raising My Voice. When I Was Younger, It Was All About How I Need Three Extra Sets Of Lungs To Get Enough Wind To Get Out The Thing At The Screaming Level I Need To, Because That's The Way It Needs To Be. Now, I See That There's A Whole Lot Of Other Colors On The Palette.

Men

Color

Wind

I Like How I Write Better Than How I Speak.

Writing

Speak

Republicans Just Can't Help Themselves. They Get In Front Of A Live Microphone And Within A Few Sentences Are Rocketing Down The Swiftest And Most Direct Route To The All-you-can-eat Comedian-and-talk-show-host Buffet.

Comedian

Buffets

Helping

I Beg Young People To Travel. If You Don't Have A Passport, Get One. Take A Summer, Get A Backpack And Go To Delhi, Go To Saigon, Go To Bangkok, Go To Kenya. Have Your Mind Blown. Eat Interesting Food. Dig Some Interesting People. Have An Adventure. Be Careful. Come Back And You're Going To See Your Country Differently, You're Going To See Your President Differently, No Matter Who It Is. Music, Culture, Food, Water. Your Showers Will Become Shorter. You're Going To Get A Sense Of What Globalization Looks Like.

Summer

Country

Travel

With Age, Life Becomes Complex And Difficult, Often Fraught With Risk On Several Levels, From The Practical To The Fiscal.

Risk

Age

Levels

This Sounds Really Corny, But I Am A Slave To My Work, A Workaholic, And Glad Of It. I Like What I Do; This Is My Place, My Little Universe, One Of Them.

Sound

Littles

Workaholic

We Americans Are Hard On Almost Everything. We Are Hard On Our Vehicles, Our Marriages And Our Heroes. Mostly, However, We Are Hard On Ourselves.

Hero

Vehicle

Hard

I'm Terrified Of Motorcycles. I've Been On One A Couple Of Times. I Did Not Like It.

Couple

Motorcycle

Terrified

Collecting Records Is, For Many, Beyond A Hobby.

Hobbies

Records

Collecting

Being An Artist Is Dragging Your Innermost Feelings Out, Giving A Piece Of Yourself, No Matter In Which Art Form, In Which Medium.

Art

Giving

Feelings

When I Read That Malaysia Airlines Flight Mh370 Had Disappeared - A State-of-the-art Boeing 777, Said To Be An Incredibly Safe Way To Travel - I Waited Patiently For The Chance To Learn What Happened.

Art

Safe

Boeing

For Me The Music Is Not So Much Anger As Much As It Is Of Passion. And I've Always Associated That Kind Of Intense Emotional Output With Music Just Because The Nature Of The Music That's Attracted Me As Far As Live.

Passion

Emotional

Kind

Desperation Is The Secret To My Steady Employment. I Am Not Interested In Downtime. I Really Like To Keep Working All The Time And I Always Feel Like I'm In The Mail Room Of Life; Working Up.

Secret

Employment

Downtime

The Prison-industrial Complex And The Military-industrial Complex Are Here With Us And Are Multi-billion Dollar Enterprises. We Can Make More Money Off The Kid In Compton If He's A Criminal Instead Of A Scholar. It's Business.

Military

Kids

Criminals

I Have Not The Smarts Or Patience For Political Office.

Patience

Smart

Office

I Think Young People Should Travel And Travel Often To Other Countries Like I Do.

Country

Thinking

People

I Have Heard People Say That They Felt Closer To Their Parents After They Have Died. Maybe If I Treat People As If They Were Dead, I Could Get Along With Them Better

People

Parent

Treats

It's Good To Be Able To Deal With It [anger] Somehow Other Than Drinking, Fighting, Crashing Cars, Hitting Your Kid, Your Wife, Your Husband, Your Whatever. Paintbrushes, Pens, Movie Cameras, Guitars, Microphones, Typewriters -- These Are Good Things. Weights. These Are Positive Ways, Good Ways To Deal With Anger, Frustration, Alienation, Rage. 'cause All The Other Ways Do Nothing But Hurt People.

Hurt

Husband

Drinking

Life Will Not Break Your Heart. It'll Crush It.

Broken Heart

Crush

Lost Love

Early Spring Is The Time For Vigorous Change, A Preparation For The Heat-driven Oppression That Is To Come.

Spring

Preparation

Heat

There Is A Lot To Say About What Bikini Kill And Other 'riot Grrrl' Bands Were Able To Achieve When They First Set Out. They Were Not Some Momentary, Convulsive, Creative Spasm Of Independent Music. There Was A Very Real, Relevant Point Of View Being Expressed.

Real

Independent

Views

South Sudan Is One Of The Most Hard-put Places In The World.

World

South

Hard

I Mean I Appreciate Fan Mail And That The People Like What I Am Doing But I Can't Answer It. If I Would Answer 25 Letters A Day I Would Be Just A Guy Answering Mail And Not An Artist Anymore.

Mean

Artist

People

If It Were A Choice Between Me Getting Killed Or One Of My Friend's Kids, I Would Happily Take The Shot.

Kids

Choices

Shots

When You Have To Work With And Exist Amongst Cynical, Burned-out Personnel On A Set, It Doesn't Matter What You're Shooting Or How Much You're Being Paid - It's Not Worth It.

Cynical

Shooting

Matter

There Are Other People, Other Economies, Governments, Cultures, Religions, And Destinies Going On At The Same Time As Yours. You Have To Widen The Scope Of Your Lens And Start Seeing More. Because Americans, It's Easy To Make Us Freak Out. When The Going Gets Rough, You Have To Get Conservative. That's What's Happened To America In The Last Eight Years. I Just Try To Point Out That There's More Going On Than Most People Pay Attention To.

Destiny

People

Trying

If You Are A Musician Who Has Released Albums, It Would Perhaps Be Morbidly Interesting To Know How Much You Would Be Owed If Everyone Who Now Has Your Music Had Actually Bought Your Record.

Interesting

Musician

Albums

She Touches Me The Jungle Lights Up With Incinerating Fire Looks Like A Flaming Serpent I Look Into Her Eyes I See A Movie Flickering Car Crashes People Kicking Corpses Men Ripping Their Tracheas Out And Shaking Them At The Sky I Think To Myself: I Don’t Want To Survive This One I Want To Burn Up In The Wreckage Cooking Flesh In The Jungle

Eye

Thinking

Men

Listen To The Stage Manager And Get On Stage When They Tell You To. No One Has Time For The Rock Star Bullshit. None Of The Techs Backstage Care If You're David Bowie Or The Milkman. When You Act Like A Jerk, They Are Completely Unimpressed With The Infantile Display That You Might Think Comes With Your Dubious Status. They Were There Hours Before You Building The Stage, And They Will Be There Hours After You Leave Tearing It Down. They Should Get Your Salary, And You Should Get Theirs.

Stars

Thinking

Rocks

'fox News' Will One Day Come To An End. Led Zeppelin Will Not. It's As Simple As That.

Simple

One Day

News

It Is Instilled In Thousands Of American Males From An Early Age That One Of Their Requirements Is To Be Able To Both Dish Out And Take A Lot Of Pain. They Are Taught The Rules Of This Road In Gyms, Rings, Backyards And Fields All Over America.

Pain

America

Age

I Am Not Immune To The Lure Of A Signed Record, Flier Or Set List. The Fact That Your Music Heroes Potentially Had, In Their Own Hands, The Record You Now Have In Yours Is Kind Of Cool. When The Musician Has Departed, It Can Give The Thing A Unique Power.

Hero

Unique

Hands

I Believe That When The Body Is Strong, The Mind Thinks Strong Thoughts.

Strong

Believe

Thinking

All Good Writers Inspire Me As I Have Never Thought I Was Any Good. As Far As A Writer Who Made Me Think I Could Do It, It Was Henry Miller. Not Because I Thought He Was So Simple That I Reckoned I Could Pull It Off As Well, But It Was His Freedom And Guts That Really Moved Me To Want To Write All The Time.

Writing

Thinking

Simple

Nietzsche, Who You Don't Spend Too Much Time With After The Age Of Seventeen, Did Have That One Great Line About "he Who Stares Into The Abyss Must Know That The Abyss Also Stares Into Him" And I Never Really Understood That Until My Friend Got Killed And You Really Get Your Head Around The Idea Of What Horror Means. It's A Truly Awful Thing, To Really, Kind Of Have That Understanding Of Things And When You Really Peer Into That.

Mean

Ideas

Understanding

Before Any American Points A Finger At President Putin And Calls Him Nasty Names, They Should Recognize That A Lot Of Americans Agree With Putin On His Stance Against Homosexual And Transgender People.

Names

People

President

The Government Is A Functionary Of The Corporations - And There's Nothing New About That. You Can Find People In The 1930s Talking About The Army Basically Working For Wall Street In All Of These Countries [it Invades].

Country

Wall

Army

Well, There's Katrina, But You Can Go Through Lots Of Kurdistan And It Looks Like Katrina Was Just There But There's People Living In It.

People

Looks

Wells

I Lay Off A Lot Modern Fiction And Only Rely On Living Writers For Non-fiction Work.

Fiction

Modern

Rely

I Listen To Blues Music A Lot And That's A Good Person Feeling Bad And Celebrating That Pain By Releasing It In That Kind Of Joyous Fashion.

Fashion

Pain

Feelings

With Writing, There Are Multiple Drafts. On Stage, There Is One Take. I Do A Lot Of Preparation For Shows, So, For The Most Part, What You Hear Me Say Is Pretty Much What I Wanted To Get At.

Writing

Preparation

Stage

Can You Imagine Telling A Woman She Can't Vote!? The Women I Hang Out With Would Be Going Home With Parts Of Your Anatomy Swinging From Their Rearview.

Home

Would Be

Vote

This Is My Own Little Rock Theory: In My Mind, Nirvana Slayed The Hair Bands. They Shot The Top Off The Poodles.

Hair

Rocks

Mind

In The Late Summer Of 1986, The Band I Had Been In For Five Years Stopped Playing. Suddenly, I Was On My Own. This New State Of Bandlessness Was, At First, Traumatic. When Your Group Breaks Up, A Lot Of Broken Parts Hit The Ground.

Summer

Years

Broken

Smart People Make Good Choices. They Dig Science And Say 'no' To The Invasion Of Sovereign Nations For The Pleasure Of Corporations.

Smart

People

Choices

Chris Christie Is New Jersey's Concern, Not America's.

America

Jersey

Concern

Musicians Should Not Play Music. Music Should Play Musicians.

Play

Musician

Should

What Does New York Sound Like? For Me, The Charlie Parker At The Royal Roost Recordings On The Savoy Label Are The Total Embodiment Of The New York Music Experience.

New York

Sound

Doe

It's So Painful To Be Next To Someone You Feel Strongly About And Know You Can't Say The Things You Want To.

Want

Painful

Kids Need Parents Who Love And Support Them Unconditionally, Full Stop.

Kids

Support

Parent

I'm Not Trying To Say I'm A Big Tough Guy... I'm A Typical American-waist Deep In This Violent Culture.

Guy

Trying

Typical

You Have To Get Away From Them. You Have To Get As Far Away As You Can Otherwise They'll Kill You With Their Lives. They Don't Know What They Do. They Are Careless With Themselves And They Take Too Much For Granted. They Make Their Shortcomings Your Problem. The Only Way To Keep Your Head Above It And Heal Your Wounds Is To Crawl Away.

Too Much

Way

Problem

The Truth Is An Anti-war Statement In Itself.

War

Anti War

Truth Is

We're Just Very Belligerent, And I'm Not Trying To Put Americans Down, By And Large I Think We're Nice People, But We Operate With The Information We're Given And We Are Limited By The Ignorance That Is Kind Of Injected Into The Media And Into The Tv Shows.

Nice

Ignorance

Thinking

I'll Never Forget How The Depression And Loneliness Felt Good And Bad At The Same Time. Still Does.

Depression

Loneliness

Feel Good

The Lowest Stress Environment Is The Radio Show. I Am Not On Camera And I Can Let The Music Do The Talking. The Rest Is More Highly Pressurized Or In The Case Of Writing, Time Intensive Task. I Say Yes To All Of It And Like All Of It But The Radio Show, By Nature Of What It Is, Is The Least Hassle.

Stress

Writing

Talking

I Like It Better That People Aren't Throwing Stuff At My Face And Trying To Fight Me On Stage. Like In The '80s, It Was Just Aggravating All The Time... I Have Scars From Cigars And Cigarettes On Me, Bic Pens, Burns From Cigarette Lighters, All That.

Fighting

People

Trying

The Opportunity To Write For The 'l.a. Weekly' Has Been One Of The Better Breaks That Has Come My Way In A Long Time.

Writing

Opportunity

Long

I Was At The First Minor Threat Show, And You Could Tell, 'this Band Is Going To Be The King Of The Town.' It Was Obvious. They Were So Good.

Kings

Band

Firsts

We Californians Can Watch The Weather Channel For Images Of Winter's Brutality Unleashed Upon Our Fellow Americans And Thank Our Lucky Stars We Don't Have To Contend With It.

Stars

Winter

Weather

Seasonal Change In Los Angeles Is Often A Very Subtle Thing. It's Not As If We Finally Stop Having To Shovel The Snow Out Of Our Driveways And Can Put Our Parkas Back In The Closet.

Snow

Los Angeles

Subtle

I Like The Idea Of Someone Else’s Love Safely Sealed In A Song Or A Book.

Song

Book

Ideas

Here You Can Be A Billionaire, Like Mark Zuckerberg Rich, But You Are Going To Die And You Are Here For A While And Ultimately All Of Your Stuff Is Kind Of Like A Rental.

Zuckerberg

Stuff

Kind

If You Want To Believe That Humans Walked With Dinosaurs And The Planet Is A Few Thousand Years Old, That Is Absolutely Fine With Me. If You Want To Teach This To Your Kids, I Don't Care. If States Want To Teach Creationism In Their Schools, There Is Nothing I Can Do About It, So I Don't Sweat It.

Believe

School

Kids

When You Are Young, There Is So Much Ahead Of You, It's Like The Saharan Desert. You Can't Even See Across It.

Desert

Young

If I Was A Woman These Days, I'd Be Killing Motherfuckers. My Handgun Would Never Cool And My Hands Would Be Covered In Testicular Blood. I Would Have A Horrible Reputation With A Lot Of Men Because I Would Be Calling Them On Their Weak Bullshit Left And Right.

Men

Blood

Hands

Keep Me Preoccupied Keep Me Busy, Busy, Busy So I Won't Have To Think I Don't Want To Think Because It Only Brings Me Pain I Just Keep Running Away From My Problems Keep Me Busy Give Me A Million Things To Do So I Can Keep Running Away From Myself.

Running

Pain

Thinking

When You Title Yourself, You Immediately Lend Yourself To All Kinds Of Pretension

Titles

Kind

All Kinds

America Is A Rough Room And You Don't Know What Might Come Your Way, So You Have To Be Prepared For Almost Anything.

America

Might

Way

I Can Die Anytime I Want. I Wish I Could Do The Same With Life.

Wish

Want

Dies

Before The Civil War, The Southern States Were Selling A Lot Of Cotton To England And Didn't Seem To Mind British Occupation. By And Large, The Revolutionary War Wasn't At All Great For Business.

War

Southern

Mind

The Only Thing Worse Than The Pastor Terry Jones Scheduled Koran Burning Is The Fact That He Canceled The Proposed Event.

Past

Facts

Events

At Times, I Feel America Is Something That I Can Actually Put My Arms Around, More Than A Land Mass And A Constitution, Something Far More Containable And Understandable. I Don't Exactly Know What It Is, But At These Times I Feel Completely Woven Into It.

America

Land

Arms

Citizens United Didn't Work. Hey, Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy Trumps Money Sometimes.

Brother

Democracy

Citizens United

Is It A Shame That I Can’t Accept Love? Am I Too Burned Out To Move Towards What Will Keep Me Alive Or Too Smart To Get Pulled Into Someone Else’s World?

Smart

Moving

Alive

We Should Treat Each Other Better. Why In The Hell Would You Still Have Racism? This Ancient, Moronic Hatred? Why Does Our Foreign Policy Have To Always Involve So Much Death And So Much Death Of Innocent People As A Matter Of Course, To The Point To Where No One Bothers To Say Anything. I Guess A Lot Of People Don't Want To Move Forward. It's Frustrating At Times.

Moving

Racism

People

I'm Disappointed By Bands Left And Right, Every Day.

Band

Disappointed

Left

Misery, Depression, Elation All Mine, Refine Confinement All My Design.

Sadness

Design

Elation

While I Have Not Ruled Out The Possibility Of Doing Music, What I Don't Want To Do Is Go Onstage And Perform Old Songs. I Do, All The Time, But I Don't Think It Is Artistically Brave.

Song

Thinking

Brave

Love Is Self Deception. I Am A Living Creature. Hate Is Only Self Love. I Am A Double Feature.

Hate

Love Is

Self

I Try To Get Myself Up And Moving As Early As Possible. Optimum Is To Be On The Treadmill While It Is Still Dark Outside.

Moving

Dark

Trying

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.

Korea

Cities

Guy

I Was Happy To Find Out That When On Tour, Dolly Parton Doesn't Use Hotels But Stays On Her Bus Every Night, To The Point Of Having Her Buses Shipped From Austria To Australia So She Can Tour The Way She Sees Fit. I Used One Of Her Buses Once - An Honor.

Night

Australia

Honor

I'm Always Looking, People Are Always Presenting And I Have Found That Every Year Of My Life There's Been Great Bands. All Over The World, All The Time. So When Someone Goes, "music Sucks Now!" I'll Go, "i Don't Think So. Not Over At My House."

Thinking

Years

People

For The Last 30-plus Years, I Have Been Doing One Long, Uninterrupted Improv.

Years

Long

Lasts

There Are Things That Happen So Quickly. A Better Cameraman Can Capture Them, But If The Light Is Not Bright And You Hoist Up Your Camera By The Time You've Dialed In Your Settings. There Are Eye Blink Moments Where You're Like "aaahhhh, I Wish," But Those Are Too Many To Catalogue. Nothing Really Sticks Out.

Eye

Light

Wish

In My Many Trips To South Africa, I Have Met And Spoken To A Lot Of People There, And They All Seem To Find Apartheid As Repellent As You Would.

People

Mets

Apartheid

Between The Dinosaur Jr. Albums And His Recent Solo Albums, 'several Shades Of Why' And 'heavy Blanket,' J Mascis Is Emerging As One Of The Last Men From All That '80s Indie Madness, Still Writing Songs That You Want To Listen To Over And Over.

Song

Writing

Men

As A Young Person Growing Up In Washington, D.c., Summers Were Hot, Humid And Relentless. My Friends And I Grew More Restless And Adventurous With Every Passing Year.

Summer

Growing Up

Years

When You're Going Into An Employment Environment That Looks Pretty Scary, It Is Easy To Lose Your Moral Compass, Your Decency, Your Sense Of Civility And Your Sense Of Community.

Scary

Community

Looks

I Beg Young People To Travel. If You Don't Have A Passport, Get One.........the Re Are Lessons That You Can't Get Out Of A Book That Are Waiting For You At The Other End Of That Flight. A Lot Of People - Americans And Europeans - Come Back And Go, "ohhhhh." And The Lightbulb Goes On.

Book

People

Waiting

I Want A Soul Mate Who Can Sit Me Down, Shut Me Up, Tell Me Ten Things I Don't Already Know, And Make Me Laugh. I Don't Care What You Look Like, Just Turn Me On.

Hate

Laughing

Soul

I Am A Pretty Crazy Person, So It's Best For Me To Be On My Own Most Of The Time.

Crazy

Crazy Person

Persons

I Would Like To Get Out To The Region In The Caspian Sea. I Would Like To Go There. I Would Like To Get To Darfur. I Would Like To Get To Khartoum In Northern Sudan. I Would Like To Get To Zimbabwe. I Would Like To Go Back To North Korea, If I Could. I Would Like To Go To Yemen. I Would Like To Get To Kashmir. Most Of Those Destinations I Will Get To.

Zimbabwe

Korea

Sea

America's Foreign Policy Lacks The Backbone To Do The Right Thing In Afghanistan - Which Is Leave.

America

Backbone

Foreign Policy

When You Hear About What Someone Else Is Going Through, And You Are Unable To Distance Yourself From It Or In Any Way Muzzle Your Empathy And Are Inspired To Actually Do Something, These Are Moments To Learn From.

Distance

Empathy

Muzzle

I'm A Liar. I'll Rip Your Mind Up. I'll Burn Your Soul, I'll Turn You In To Me.

Rip

Liars

Evil

If I Think Of The Audience Too Much, Then I'm Going To Start Catering To Them...and It Turns Into Entertainment. And I've Got Time For Entertainment; I'm Just Not At All That Interested In Doing It Myself. I'd Rather Go For Some Pretty Raw Expression.

Thinking

Expression

Too Much

I'd Like To Be A Better Writer, But I Have No Dreams To Direct Or Do A Screenplay. And I'd Love To Have A Big Starring Role In A Movie Because The Paycheck Would Be Bigger. That's The Only Reason I Do Films.

Dream

Would Be

Roles

Quite Often Governments Are One Way And The People Are Another. You Can't Judge The Many By The Actions Of A Few. What If Americans Were All Judged By The Actions Of The Bush Administration And People Did Not Know The Truth? That America Is Full Of People Who Are, At Present, Poorly Represented And Poorly Catered To By The Media. All These Places I Go, People Say That America Is Good And I'm Like, "well, Thank You, I'm Glad You Can See It." And You Know - We Are Good, We've Just Got Work To Do.

People

Judging

What If

Hope Is The Last Thing A Person Does Before They Are Defeated.

Doe

Lasts

Defeat

Don't Let Despair Mutate Your Flesh Look At My Twisted Stumps Of Thought See The Fingers, Listen To The Voice I Am Slowly Becoming The End Of The Line.

Voice

Despair

Looks

You Don't Have To Twist My Arm To Work.

Twists

Arms

When You're Kept Out Of The Adult World, It's A Blessing In Disguise.

Blessing

Adults

World

I Get Letters From Young People Telling Me That They're Broke And Download My Albums For Free. They Ask Me What I Think About That. I Now Have A Standard Line. I Tell Them, 'i Would Rather Be Heard Than Paid.'

Thinking

People

Albums

There's Always Going To Be A Need For Activism; There's Always Going To Be A Need For You And Me Doing The Right Thing, Being Very Lincoln-sonian In Looking Out For Each Other.

Needs

Activism

Doing The Right Thing

August, The Summer's Last Messenger Of Misery, Is A Hollow Actor.

Summer

August

Actors

I Wouldn't Want To Roll The Dice On Kabul By Myself, Because I Really Think Getting Killed Is Definitely A Possibility There. A Very Good Possibility.

Thinking

Kabul

Want

The Gop Grows More And More Unpopular With Female Voters Seemingly Every Time One Of Its Leaders Gets In Front Of A Microphone. Misogynist Is As Misogynist Does. The Gop And Its Bloviating Pundits Don't Like Women And They Are Unable To Hide It, Nor Do They Seem To Make Much Attempt To Do So.

Leader

Female

Doe

There Are Religions And Social And Moral Awareness In Any Society That Gets Passed Immediately. Those Human Truths. All Cultures Address Them.

Culture

Addresses

Moral

I Urge You To Read The Occupy Manifesto, Written By The New York City General Assembly. It Is Unavoidably Clear. This Is Not Directionless Action. If It Were, The Media Would Have Moved On.

New York

Media

Cities

If It's A Man's World, As They Say, Then Men, Your World Is A Poorly Run Carnage Fest.

Running

Men

World

My First Visit To West Berlin Was In February 1983. The Drive Through East Berlin, The Fact That West Berlin Was Surrounded By A Wall That Was More Than 100 Miles Long - The Absurdity And Intensity Of It Really Knocked Me Out.

Wall

East Berlin

Long

I'm Not Like Paparazzi. I Never Force Myself On Anyone. I Always Ask, And Some Places Offer Money. And So I Try And Get These Photos To Give You, The Viewer, A Real Look At What I Was Seeing.

Real

Giving

Trying

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.

2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.

2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.

2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.

3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.

3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.

3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.

4. Proper Usage of Quotes

4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.

4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.

4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

5. Common Mistakes to Avoid

5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.

5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.

5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.

6. Quotes in Different Contexts

6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.

6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.

6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.

7. Punctuation and Formatting

Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:

Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.

Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.

Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.

8. Ethical Considerations

Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes

Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.

Conclusion

Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.

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