To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

If your not in it you're out of it.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

He that burnes most shines most.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

Unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

scientific whaling, and other lies will be exposed and become atrocities of the past.