Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

I hate 'Rolling Stone' - because I loved it so much. I had the 'Cheap Tricks' cover and the Clash cover on my wall for years, and I just hate what happened to it. It just became the smarmy grad student that sits next to you on the bus.

For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.

My first concert - maybe it was 1979 - was a blur. I'm not sure whether it was Blue Oyster Cult/Cheap Trick/Pat Travers at San Jose Civic Auditorium or The Police/The Knack/Robert Johnson at Berkeley's Zellerbach Auditorium.

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.

The explosion of jihad and its desire to export its contagious madness to all areas of the world have changed the way we view immigration.

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.

It's pointless to get all huffy about stuff.

Wherever socialism spread, misery followed - and still follows.

Now that President Trump is a reality, I happily have been giving him a chance to see how he does.

I don't think Trevor Noah got his job by being a conservative.

Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.

The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who doesn't share their assumptions, they say, 'Fox News is evil, and it must be stopped.'

I've interviewed everyone from Joe Strummer to Iggy Pop.

I always thought Jon Stewart was an extremely good surgeon with his scalpel. He would have Republicans on who, I guess, were unclear about what Stewart was up to, and while Jon Stewart was being nice, he was building a case for drowning them.

Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you.

The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.

No one wants a lecture when you're getting a latte. So if you get one without asking, isn't that grounds for some discipline?

Obama was never that bad or that great, and the same is probably going to go for Trump.

I don't care much for Hillary Clinton.

Here is the problem with legacy: You'll sacrifice stuff that is not even yours to get it. Take President Obama's Iran deal, when he gave the shirt off his back - and ours, too.

Infected by political ideology, if you dare question climate models, your career is done.

In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.

The PC rebellion is about a reaction against the media academic complex, which tells us what to say - or else.

Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn't think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations - sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.

Social justice warriors want to return to the Dark Ages when you communicated with a club instead of joining one.

The truly persuasive must step out of themselves and see their own flaws first and admit they could be wrong. Then, when they correct for that, you can be truly persuasive.

True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.

What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.

Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.

What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.

Getting mad only leads to madness.

Thanks to an immersive lifestyle that involves Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, we've created a psychological three-sided mirror for our social impact on others.

Here is a fact: If Facebook were a religion, it will be the third largest behind Islam and Christianity. Its success is rooted and capitalizing on the human desire to bond.

A troll's life is a no-physical-contact existence. You will die alone, as you die daily, online.

As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.

I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.

Trump has manufactured the first-ever Celebrity Immunity Bubble - rendering him incapable of offense, no matter whom he offends. It's brilliant.

As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.

I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.

The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them the 'tolerati' - you know, a group of people who claim to be tolerant, except when they run into someone who disagrees with them.

Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.

Ideas are things that happen at any time because you're constantly thinking and evaluating life as if it were an eternally unsolvable math problem, which it is.

Obama's tenure had more dirty linen then Charlie Sheen's hamper.