When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

The future is unwritten.

I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

"This is now the twelfth day of rioting in France. They have been rioting for almost two weeks. And France has still not surrendered. That's like a record.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.