Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Everything comes down to Dollars

We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

Food! Oh my god, I love food. Sugar makes me come alive.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.