The problem now is that even the really great little mom-and-pop places are trying to make themselves more like the thing that's trying to kill them. You know, 'I own a little hamburger stand but because the standard for hamburgers is McDonald's, I'm going to make my hamburgers more like McDonald's does so you'll like me.' So smaller places are losing their identity by attempting to conform in order to survive.

I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me…

on Feasting On Asphalt: I wanted to do a project to go out and try to pretend that the big freeways don't exist and the big fast-food restaurants don't exist a…

Life is always the best teacher, no matter what you're doing.

We're ashamed of what we are. That's why we feel that we have to get rid of the values of our glorious history and run to learn from other, new nations. Don't …

Same thing happened in the Punk Movement in the late 70's. It's like, major labels were signing punk bands right after the band's first gig, y'know, a punk ban…

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.