J. M. Barker Quotes

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.

Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at the instant you want to do it.

I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

You just have to trust your own madness.

Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.

I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs.

Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

This present universe is the Kingdom of Heaven, and all we do is to clear away our misconception of it until we see It as It really is.

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else.