John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

People say I'm not much of a girl either, " Tiger Lily said.She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.

When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.

The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'

Develop Self-confidence, then love will fol­low; it will come naturally from within. And that way the love will be pure.