People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.