Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

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.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested!

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

What you don't know about women is alot.

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer.