'I see who you are with the laser, you little dickhead. Oh, aren't you so cool? ahahahahah... Yeah, I saved all my allowance from mommy to go buy a laser so I can shine it at Dave. I bet you're probably still a virgin, aren't ya Peckerwood? How about you be cool so the people around you don't beat your fucking brains in, and let me play guitar, okay? Thank you. GAHHHHHH! See, when I'm up here, and I've got the fucking microphone, I can say whatever I WANT TO!'

'We were escorted out of town in a bullet-proof bus because I said a pro-IRA statement in Antrim.'

'Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?'

'Religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell, whereas spirituality is for people like me who have been there.'

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weig…

'I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, alth…