"This is an emergency crisis we're in. The entertainment media is affecting everything on the planet in a very negative way. I'm only interested in Rock n' Roll. Rock n' Roll is a music that represents truth. Your TV channel (VH1) has taken the word 'rock' and knocked the 'roll' off the end. You made rock this umbrella term for everything. That's wrong. Shakira isn't rock. These country artists with fur coats aren't rock - or country. I offered a video to VH1 of my band playing in the studio and they don't want to air it because it had musicians playing in it. They want some babe walking on the beach or whatever. I got turned on to this music by watching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on TV playing their guitars. It completely took me over. When you can't see musicians playing anymore, I'm not interested anymore." -Tom Petty
Someone that I can throw all caution into the wind with.
Rock n' fucking roll: .38 Special, Aerosmith, Black Crowes, Blue Oyster Clut, Bright Eyes, Buckcherry, Bush, Bloodhound Gang, Counting Crows, CCR, Damien Rice, David Allen Coe (Only country artist I like), Dropkick Murphys, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, Franz Ferdinand, Guns N' Roses, Incubus, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jet, Jimmy Eat World, John Mellencamp, Kid Rock, The Killers, Metallica, Motley Crue, Neil Diamond, Nine Inch Nails, Non Phixion, Pearl Jam, Primus, Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, REM, Rocco DeLuca and the Burden, Queen, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Silversun Pickups, Steve Miller Band, Stone Temple Pilots, The Strokes, Sublime, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Van Halen, Velvet Revolver, The Wallflowers, Weezer, White Stripes, ZZ Top... To name a few.
The 40 Year-Old Virgin, American History X, Anchorman, Austin Powers, Baseketball, Beavis and Butthead Do America, A Bronx Tale, Casino, Dodgeball, Dumb and Dumber, Forrest Gump, Full Metal Jacket, Grandma's Boy, Invincible, Jarhead, Joe Dirt, Kingpin, Knocked Up, Orgazmo, Pulp Fiction, Rocky series, Saving Private Ryan, Saw series, Scarface, Super Bad, Super Troopers, Team America World Police, There's Something About Mary, Waiting, Wedding Crashers, The Wedding Singer. As of now I'm into everything with the involvement of Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Will Farrell and Vince Vaughn.
24, American Gladiators, Colbert Report, Family Guy, The Office, Seinfeld, Scrubs, The Simpsons, SportsCenter... Whatever's on.
Not a big fan of reading anything other than magazines and the newspaper, but I managed to read a Splinter Cell book, "Brain Droppings," by George Carlin, The Slash Biography and "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell," by Tucker Max.
My mom, my dad and my step-dad for being awesome throughout my whole life.