First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

Everyone comes with baggage

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

Judge me on what I do and I think you will be pleased and proud of me.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.

My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.

Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.

What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?