Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

The future is unwritten.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

No one is sent by accident to anyone.

Those who envy you inadvertently admit to being inferior to you.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Accept what comes to you totally & completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it & then let it go.

There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

I have this mistress: show business.

Sexy, to me, doesn't have anything to do with beautiful.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible