I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.