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I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.

A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.

Yes, I did have a band for two or three years. They were called Adie and the Jonahs.

People believe that forensics these days is the answer to everything and because we believe so ardently that forensics can lead us to the criminal we're also a bit nonplussed when someone gets in there and manipulates forensics to their advantage.

You've got the armor and everything on, and you think, 'This is going to be great.' Then they give you a sword, and you think, 'Ah, it's not too bad.' And after 10 minutes you're thinking, 'Please, I can't be doing this all day.' I mean, I really don't know how people sustained themselves in real battles.

Portadown was the most marginalized of all the Nationalist communities in the North. Suddenly we were living in a town where, if you were Catholic, you literally couldn't walk up the street without getting into some kind of conflict.

It's 'Line of Duty' - you can't second-guess anything!

'The Decay Of Lying' is a very interesting treatise. It was actually penned as a dialogue between two characters, Cyril and Vyvyan, both of who were named after Wilde's sons. Wilde goes on to extrapolate art as a science and as a social pleasure, to its most logical and illogical extremes, and it ends up being very funny, indeed.