I told Frank that I had never before seen anyone on stage with such apparent indifference for his audience. “Well, I don’t think you can really ask for much more than that,” he replied. “Unless you’re one of these ass-licking pop performers that must always do a song that people must enjoy in the traditional sense of enjoyment. If that’s your job,

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“The people who want to censor do not care about saving your children,” he told David Sheff. “They care about one thing – getting re-elected. Let’s face it, folks: Politicians in the United States are the scum of the earth. We have to go after them individually because they’re varmints. The legislation they are passing, piece by piece, converts Ame

The last track on the album is also the longest; at 13 minutes, ‘The Ocean Is The Only Solution’ is a trio improvisation that scurries through a series of complex rhythmic patterns before settling into a fuzz guitar solo over a fast,

“Taste is reinforced by what gets broadcast, and it’s reinforced by who receives those stupid awards on those horrible award shows that keep coming up over and over and over again.”2

The whole right-wing trend is people who want to look upstanding while they go home and do as much weird stuff as they can get away with.”17

Frank had once maintained that Americans hated music but loved entertainment. “The reason they hate music,” he explained, “is that they’ve never stopped to listen to what the musical content is because they’re so befuddled by the packaging and merchandising that surround the musical material they’ve been induced to buy. There’s so much peripheral s

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned … Look, how many people died as a result of the Bible compared to the Kama Sutra? There’s no competition.”12

“Musicians left to their own devices are incredibly lazy. Outside of sea slugs, I don’t think there’s any species less oriented toward punctuality.”