If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.

I don't defend pain, But I do respect its ability to make us stronger and wiser after it stings.

It is something to have gazed on the constellated white, felt it running from the eyes and the pores: the salt of love. It is something to have whispered wild thank-yous in the only ways we know how.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

I hate just showing up, hitting a mark, doing your work, and going home. It's very boring. But being part of the creation of the whole thing is very exciting.

Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.

Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.

The team is never about the single player. It's not about the injury that keeps a star out of a certain game, and it's not about the coach. It's about the strength, and the abilities of the sum.

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.