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

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.

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.

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

The fights are always the same

In every marriage more than a week old there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

We will have to work hard to rest.

Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I mean, really, all I'm doing is saying I can be bribed.

The Jets tried this whole garbage with Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez and it got them nowhere.

I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do a mix.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

Haha, you lose! I got your delicious Subway sandwich Jerry 'stupid' Lawler!

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.