I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

I never wore earplugs — that would have been cheating.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

I didn't want the Ramones being told what to be doing, and I wanted the Ramones being presented in the right light - the remaining Ramones.

As soon as you start analyzing something it stops

As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

A great deal of success in life depends on the relationship you have with yourself, your partner and your money.

I have to find out who I am before my doubts discover it first.

Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

Sometimes, our greatest obstacles are breathtakingly beautiful challenges. Rise to the challenge!

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.

Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.