I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

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.

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.

One age misunderstands another

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

All I believe in is food and myself.

Sweatpants painted to look like denim are the end of civilization. It drives me mental.

Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.

I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.