I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

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.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?

I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their schools.

I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in.

Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?