For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

If your not in it you're out of it.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

I am absolutely convinced without any uncertainty that the old adage, History Repeats Itself is a valid assertion.

Never cut loose from your longings.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.