I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

I can all have all the money in the world, hold all the power, or be worshiped like a god but all are meaningless without love.

People are like stars in the night sky, all are not equal, but still, everyone shines.

There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.