Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Out of Africa, there is always something new.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.

I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.