I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

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.

He has a vision of his life as a sliver of soap, worn and used and smoothed into a slender, blunt-edged arrow-head, a little more of it disintegrating with every day.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

If you attack Ann Coulter, you don't end up with your cat killed or your tires slashed.

You don't have the bug, so go do what makes you happy.

Socialist society is a society of officials.

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.