O. Henry Quotes

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I never thought I was right for TV or that TV was right for me.

I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal.

I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

I'm a big Germs fan; most people are.

I'm a professional food eater.

Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.

Change is hard, but change is good.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it.

You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.