I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

You cant control the curve balls life throws you so you have to learn how to control yourself and change quickly to make sure the curve ball doesnt knock you out.

Each of my records has a different focus a different theme.

I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not been happening. It is jinxed, and I am very happy. I hope this jinx continues.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

You have to be true to yourself.

Im going to be a happy housewife. Im going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

The NBA has made it clear they want fan bases to be able to keep their teams.

I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

Flowers are happy things.

There is a tendency in the gay community to become worse than straight people ever could be

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

To become a better you, concentrate on the work at hand at the moment. Do it and do it well.

Death is only tragic if you have tragically wasted your life on meaninglessness.

Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.

For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can't change your physical appearance.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are cool and fun and a good idea, but they're cheesy and awful. And recording a pop single was one of them.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.