I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

When a human being is brought up with the concern of simply taking care of his body and the external aspect of his life, he is acting as though he is only biomass

Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.

Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

Anyone who does not in their way of interpreting events around the world is an infidel, regardless if you're a Muslim or you're not a Muslim. That doesn't matter.

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels.

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Yet for every peak there is a valley.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.