We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

There's definitely privilege in the upper classes, but as a whole, music can be enjoyed by anybody who can gather around a radio.

People see musicians on a huge stage playing a festival for 80,000 people and are like, "Oh, they have such magnetism," but it always embarrasses me more than it makes me feel proud.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

People aren't really paying attention when they're listening to your record, so unless you're shouting exactly what you want them to hear, they don't pay attention.

Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

I'm just tired and bored with myself.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.