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.

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.

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

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.

The man, with his brain, can pierce the intoxicating mirage of things and contemplate a frozen universe in the most perfect indifference to him and his dreams.

Stride with a proud disdain through the swamp of human inadmissibility.

It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.

Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.