It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

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'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.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

If you stopped yourself every time you said, I have to and changed it to, I get to, it might change your entire experience.

I don't stage my own publicity.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.