Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my energy and time to create...

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

To remember everything is a form of madness.

The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania