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

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

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.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.