We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.