There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

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.

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.