I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.

Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression

In life we must be willing to take risks, for that is the only way progress is attained.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

If you can control yourself sexually, you can control yourself. Period.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.