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

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.

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.

Every action today will define the future.

What I have with you, I do not want with anyone else.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

When I don't like a piece of music, I make a point of listening to it more closely

This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network of enlightenment will leave this earth.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.