My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

The future is unwritten.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

I suppose I do get sad, but not for too long. I just look in the mirror and go, 'What a f***ing good-looking f*** you are.' And then I brighten up.

I'm more interested in the games than the people.

Eve, we're going to be married in a few days." The jittering started again, big time. "Yeah." "If he keeps looking at you like that, I'm going to have to hurt him.

Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

Every heart has an atmosphere. What is the atmosphere of your heart? Nothing good develops in an atmosphere of anxiety

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.