Without water the desert is nothing but a grave.

God provides the men and women needed for each generation.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.