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.