I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don't feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock.

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.

No boy is worth your teenage years!.

Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.

Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It’s all gonna make you better. Stronger.

I believe music is a place everyone of us can go to. I don’t care who you are, where you were born, what you do with your life. Everyone can come here in music and be equal.

Life is not always good, which is why music exists.

Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.

To anyone that ever told you you're no good.. they're no better.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

Once a Altman's film has been in a town, it kind of wrecks the town. It doesn't even matter what the film is because, suddenly, everybody's hip and stores start doubling prices or whatever.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

I think I've set some big goals. The American people haven't had a raise in 15 years. Getting incomes up is a huge goal. Now maybe it's not as exciting to some people, but it's a huge goal.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

There is only one necessary condition for the emergence of a new theatre, that the stage and auditorium should be open to the masses, should be able to contain a people and the actions of a people.