O. Henry Quotes

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

The easy solution isn't the solution, it's the problem.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

I am the assasin of my dreams.

I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.

It's hard to judge literary merit.

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Anywhere you hang yourself is home.

Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented.

I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

I am always interested in an opportunity to learn something.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

I think the most "passionate" I get about actual humans are the ones I want to kill.

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Love beyond the damage.

I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

In my many trips to South Africa, I have met and spoken to a lot of people there, and they all seem to find apartheid as repellent as you would.

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

Music, to me, is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.

Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.