I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

I just have work to do; I just do it.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.

I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party, and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.