I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

I like critics with strong opinions.

What is a Miracle? It is something that was once thought Impossible but became Possible with FAITH.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I'm comfortable with how I lived my life as the president.

I have done a lot of theater.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs.

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.