Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there

Always bet on yourself, no matter what the odds are. It means more to be in the race than watching the victory lap from the stands.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Music never leaves you alone, and punk rock will always be there when nothing else will.

Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Our brains may lie to us, but our hearts never do.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

It takes knowledge to know something. It takes guts to do what you know.

Being surrounded by six Brendons is so not fun.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.

There was very little art in my childhood.

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII’s knights in another life, riding through a great forest.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.