But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

I just didn't like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I'd just be going over the same old ground. I'm only years older and fatter and I'll just do an older, fatter version of me.

I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-rock-musician guy, and that's why I sort of got away from music.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I felt I had had my run - I had done Jane's and I wasn't particularly interested in music anymore.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. I also try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once. If you're going to buy a $2,000 jacket, you are going to want to wear it over and over.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.

I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town: the one who always has a book in one hand and is reaching for the next book with the other. There's one in every town.

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

It's taken some getting used to, that my father actually is a hero.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

DISCRIMINATE v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is if possible more objectionable than another.

Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Members of Congress have more in common with the people they hobnob in Washington, D.C., than they do with the people they're supposed to represent.

People have to find ways of explaining the work.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

Follow your heart because it always knows.