I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

Santa Monica was a big song, and I always knew it would be radio friendly. But its not a defining song for me, though for a lot of people it is.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

You dont have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

If you cant say it in three minutes, I dont want to know about it.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.

I just wanna be a rock star!

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not believe in ourselves

Trust in Him with everything I have even if I have nothing, and right now, that's about all I've got.

There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war.

When I was a wee little kid, " remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn’t mean that we are alone.

I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.