Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink, for fellows whom it hurts to think.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

I told my broker that as long as he doesn't tell me where my money should go, I won't tell him where he should go.

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.