If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.

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

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.

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.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

Of course, with the people you really know, no one changes that much.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.