Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.

Life to me is an adventure and you've got to experience everything.

Play before you get good, because by the time you get good, you're too old to play

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.

If your not in it you're out of it.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.

All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books

I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates.