I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

The fact that music can induce Goosebumps draw a tear inspire and connect is one of my favorite parts of being human

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

A real punk is punk on the inside.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

Perfection is not to be attained, but to be pursued infinitely.

leave me a smilejust warm enough...to spend a milliongolden afternoons in.

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

President Bush says he has just one question for the American voters, 'Is the rich person you're working for better off now than they were four years ago?'

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

We can't all do everything.