A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

I detest 'Jingle Bells, ' 'White Christmas, ' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, ' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

Be happy. Think, "O Lord, You are my everything. You are my goal. You are my breath." Do not think, "This is mine, that is mine." Instead think, "All is You. All is Yours."

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.