The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

A real punk is punk on the inside.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn’t mean you cannot see them.

Damn. A dead body. I hate it when that happens.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.

There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.