Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

I hope somebody cares because I sure don't. I sure don't. Not anymore. I'm ashamed to go around my family. I'm too embarrassed to confide in my friends. Outside of work I don't have a life.

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.

I love everything about motels. I can't help myself. I still get excited every time I slip a key into a motel room door and fling it open.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.

I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.