Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

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.

Lack of skill dictates economy of style.

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

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction

The future comes one day at a time [so don't fear and try to solve all the worries and problems of the future today].

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.