I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

We have to do a better job at the work of anthropology if we hope to maintain our role in the public discourse.

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]

There's never enough time to do nothing!

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

No one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to reach a goal. It takes a great deal of effort - and this cannot be taught.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.