For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.

I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.

If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries like I do.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.'

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

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

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

I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do.

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

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