Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

Friends don't let friends go to hell."- Johann Gunter in "The Bucktown Babies

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

A bitter man needs to place his troubles on the front of his tongue so that they taste sweeter.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.