Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

there is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself".

My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

A success unshared is a failure.

When youre young, you dont think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You dont think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.

We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

Adventures suck when you're having them.