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

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.

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.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

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

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

You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right But where's the bloody horse?

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

If you strive to be perfect in everything, whether it's possible or not, you will always live a more fulfilled life.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

The administration [of Barack Obama] is going to have to figure out, you know, a tough response on the basis of this [Russian] hacking.

Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.