Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me
I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue!
Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.
I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.
Things just evolve. I sort of have no control over what happens with the songs. Sometimes I'm afraid I might wake up one morning with an entire record of polka songs.
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
Things are only impossible until somebody does what another believes can't be done.
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.
The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised.