I wanna try and stay a student for life.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

Some things never die, and they often get way better.

Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

I want to be a student for life.

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.

If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. - Peter Andersen

He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.